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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] cloning systems across architectures
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:48:33
Message-Id: 200403111046.55363.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] cloning systems across architectures by George Shapovalov
1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 08:25, George Shapovalov wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:44, Anthony Dodson wrote:
3 > > For instance, how can one move the definition of the "world" class to the
4 > > new machine (bootstrapped) and then emerge all that software at once? Is
5 > > there a better approach?
6 >
7 > So, you basically have two different systems and you want to optimize both
8 > (so no common denominator) or they are different arches, meaning that you
9 > would rather recompile; but you would rather not mess with all the
10 > individual packages? Is this the situation?
11 > Then yes, no need to go package by package:
12 > 1. clone your /etc/make.conf and adjust C[XX]FLAGS correspondingly (but
13 > keep USE definition identical)
14 > 2. copy /var/cache/edb/world over
15 (to a different directory)
16 > 3. do "emerge -[p]e world" or even simply "emerge world"
17 emerge $(cat world)
18
19 Emerge now checks to see if a package listed in the world file is installed
20 before doing anything with it. If it's not installed, it is skipped.
21
22 Regards,
23 Jason Stubbs
24
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