On Friday 21 April 2006 05:35, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I want to cp -a /usr/portage to another partition to make room on / > > When I will do this, all files of the portage directory will get > a new and nearly identical timestamp. > > Will this hurt the packaging/compiling or "anything related to > administer gentoo"-thingy ?
no it wont. I cp -a'ed my whole system on a new harddisk yesterday and everything still works like it should. You have to use -a, not -r, but you will be save. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
