Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world Will portage update handle

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:54 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden did opine thusly: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Gary Golden wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
On 11/02/2010 03:53 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Gary Golden wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Stroller
On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. For small values of frequently. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same filesystem. Frequently, they are not. For small values of frequently. Stroller. for every sane system out

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Gary Golden
/var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. It is safe for everyday laptop with 500Gb to have solid / ;) -- Gary Golden

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Gary Golden wrote: /var is a candidate for surprisingly filling up / to 100% so it is a smart and sane choice to put it on its own partition where damage will be reduced to some log files or an aborted emerge. It is safe for everyday laptop with 500Gb to have

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage are on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Stroller wrote: On 2/11/2010, at 10:46am, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... hard links will only work if

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:21 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:19 on Tuesday 02 November 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann did opine thusly: On Tuesday 02 November

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 02 November 2010 22:05:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: rant over Relief! :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

[gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-01 Thread Gary Golden
Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s /etc/portage /var/lib/portage/world Will portage update handle it properly? Using hardlinks seems to be more