At Sun, 06 Feb 2005 00:22:12 +0100 Bastian Balthazar Bux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
>
>>I noticed the file /var/lib/portage/config and wonder what it is.
>>I could not find it mentioned in the portage, emerge, or ebuild man
>>pages.  I also looked in the portage chapter of the handbook.
>>
> I bet it's used to see if the config files installed two different
> emerge are the same, in this way:

Yes.  My suspicion is also that this has an md5 sum.
>
> in that file should stay all the files that match CONFIG_PROTECT
> variable (emerge --info show this one)
> It should not to be a disaster delete that file just boring.
>
>>Should I also merge the two config files and can I alphabetize them
>>and uniq the result?
>>
> Add manually stuff into .../world is not a good idea,
> # emerge --noreplace $(cat ../oldworld)
> should be better, leave it insert the packages into world,
> also *don't* sort it, I bet again that the order of emerge is
> important, surely it can rebuild it but leave it in it's original
> sorting IMHO is waaaay more secure.

Is this correct?  I was under the impression that one could safely add
entries to world manually and the order was unimportant (so
alphabetizing is safe).

allan

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