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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:00:28 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> The straightforward way seems to be to copy the world file from the |
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> current system to the new one (after finishing a basic installation |
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> using the standard methods) and running "emerge -uaDvN world". Is this |
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> likely to run me into problems? Perhaps I should prefer "emerge -1 `cat |
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> old.world.file`?" |
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The last time I tried copying world, portage complained. emerge -u $(cat |
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oldfile) worked, but you don't want -1 as you want the packages added to |
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your new world. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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