On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, Raphael wrote: > On Dec 17, 2007 11:55 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *removedlotsofideas* > > ?? > > > your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its > > structures: no matter how hosed your 'data', you can repair it with cp, > > mv, an emerge sync and a text editor. > > > > Which is all not true, if you start using some database crap. > > > > Go, look at /var/db/pkg - you can read and repair that stuff easily. > > Or the files in /var/lib/portage. Damaged world-file? nano FTW! > > The Portage files are easy to maintain. But I honestly never _had_ > to read them. I just did out of curiosity. And I never needed to > repair them either. When I got hosed data, I just replaced everything > with the latest backup copy and never looked back.
which won't help you much if the last backup is 7 days old and you just did a big fat update/cleanup circle. I had to repair stuff in /var - and I was glad that everything was nice, readable text files. Made the whole thing very easy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
