Re: [gentoo-user] Saving Space on Backups: rm -r /usr/portage/* ?

2005-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:35:58 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove > anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge > sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups? It should be safe. As you say, most

Re: [gentoo-user] Saving Space on Backups: rm -r /usr/portage/* ?

2005-04-25 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, fire-eyes wrote: > I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove > anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge > sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups? No, because /usr/portage is rsync'ed. You probably

[gentoo-user] Saving Space on Backups: rm -r /usr/portage/* ?

2005-04-25 Thread fire-eyes
I'm keeping a series of full system backups. However i'd like to remove anything portage related *that could be replaced by just an emerge sync*. can I just remove /usr/portage/* in these older backups? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list