Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:35:51 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote: 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. No they won't. -a includes -p, which preserves timestamps. If you are really concerned about an identical copy, use rsync. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
On 4/20/06 11:41 PM, Martins Steinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, 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 ? Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :) Keep hacking! mcc Rsync -a is a better tool for that, as it will preserve timestamps/permissions, etc. I have experience only with distfiles on vfat partition. generally it can be that way but without lockfile and cvs and svn. and probably resume on unfinished downloads corrupts files but I'm not sure about it. To avoid very complex setup i steal space from vfat in favor of ext3 to put distfiles on. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
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 ? Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :) Keep hacking! mcc Won't cause any problems, since as mentioned by other posters, -a implies -p. Even if it didn't, you wouldn't have problems because your sync timestamp is contained in /usr/portage/timestamp.chk. As long as the *contents* of this file are not modified, your syncs will be fine. Other portage stuff does not use timestamps as far as I know (of files in /usr/portage anyway). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
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 ? Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :) Keep hacking! mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Filetimestamp needed by emerge ?
On Friday 21 April 2006 06:35, 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 ? Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :) Keep hacking! mcc I have experience only with distfiles on vfat partition. generally it can be that way but without lockfile and cvs and svn. and probably resume on unfinished downloads corrupts files but I'm not sure about it. To avoid very complex setup i steal space from vfat in favor of ext3 to put distfiles on. -- Linux 2.6.15-ck7 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 07:28:29 up 5:04, 5 users, load average: 1.25, 1.13, 1.10 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
