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From: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com>
To: "gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: seed emerge with old /var/db/pkg ?
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:09:17
Message-Id: af93478f3b8e944fa281a3161287b11d656ea8c7.camel@infinera.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] seed emerge with old /var/db/pkg ? by Joakim Tjernlund
1 On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 01:57 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
2 > I am looking for a way to seed emerge with an older pkg db so emerge can calculate
3 > which packages needs to be rebuild/upgraded in order to get to the same state as the system pkg db,
4 > Is that possible?
5 >
6 > Also, is there some tool that allows med to copy just files needed for a profile?
7 > Something like "cp" /etc/portage/make.profile /my/destination
8 >
9
10 portage-utils has variables Q_VDB and Q_EDB which allows qmerge to use different VDBs/EDBs
11 Does portage have something similar?

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: seed emerge with old /var/db/pkg ? Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>