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On 11/8/19 9:09 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 01:57 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: |
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>> I am looking for a way to seed emerge with an older pkg db so emerge can calculate |
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>> which packages needs to be rebuild/upgraded in order to get to the same state as the system pkg db, |
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>> Is that possible? |
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>> Also, is there some tool that allows med to copy just files needed for a profile? |
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>> Something like "cp" /etc/portage/make.profile /my/destination |
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> portage-utils has variables Q_VDB and Q_EDB which allows qmerge to use different VDBs/EDBs |
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> Does portage have something similar? |
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No, nothing like either of those things. |
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However, if you want to operate on an old system then the usual |
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recommendation is to unpack a stage3 and bind mount the old system root |
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into the stage3 so that you can chroot into the stage3 and run something |
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like this: |
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emerge --root /mnt/old-system portage |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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