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On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> Hello Jerry McBride, |
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> > Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a |
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> > duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build |
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> > process I run this script via cron... |
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> > #!/bin/sh |
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> > rm /portage.list/*.* |
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> > |
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> > emerge -pe --color=n system > /portage.list/system.list |
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> > emerge -pe --color=n world > /portage.list/world.list |
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> > Basicly it generates a list of installed ebuilds for both the system |
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> > and world model. |
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> Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world? Your |
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> method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their |
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> dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file. |
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It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all you |
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need... |
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> The system list is contained in your profile, so you just need a note of |
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> where /etc/make.profile points, which you will already have is you |
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> backup /etc. |
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From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride |
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