on gentoo for example I have accrued a few files under /etc/portage that to my knowledge just have to live there…

right now I basically rely on my backups for this. but maybe somebody knows a clever way to handle this?

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    The other portage-relevant file you might want to back up is /var/lib/portage/world, which isn’t even in /etc.

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      11 year ago

      @nyan Yes, always backup world if nothing else. How the hell’d I forget that!. I usually symlink it to /etc but then forget I did when updating backups. Worst case, I wind up with a slightly old world file if I need no rebuild.