On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:08 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> What I ment was excluding the _contents_ of a file. I want to keep
>> everything else (filname, permissions and so on).
>>
>
> Just exclude that file totally. I guarantee gentoo will not care as I
> have booted many times in gentoo using my home made live cds without
> /dev/tty12
>

And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device node.

jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al
crw------- 1 root root 4, 12 Jan 13 08:09 /dev/tty12

# emerge --info
Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'qt-split' (sections:
'kde sets', 'kde crazy sets')
Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'plasmoids' (sections:
'kde sets', 'kde crazy sets')
Error during set creation: Redefinition of set 'koffice-2' (sections:
'kde sets', 'kde crazy sets')
Portage 2.2_rc20 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2,
glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.26.8-openvz-ext4-tickless-dirty x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 
Linux-2.6.26.8-openvz-ext4-tickless-dirty-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:05:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.3.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.26
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

John

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