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?

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    1 year ago

    @gkpy I assume by “dotfiles” you simply mean “config files” as there should be nothing in your /etc/portage directory that’s hidden. For all configs I want to backup, I just keep a copy of them elsewhere. As for portage stuff, I just copy my make.conf, and everything in each repos.conf and package.* directories.

    If you want to simplify a complex solution to an already simple thing, take a look at bare git worktrees.

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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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        @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.