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On Monday 28 December 2009 09:50:31 Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> Season's Greetings to one and all. |
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> I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some |
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> kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of |
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> installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run |
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> dpkg --get-selections > file |
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> and |
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> dpkg --set-selections < file |
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> (or some such), one imagines that the Gentoo gurus/magicians are able to do |
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> something similar. |
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> It takes me months to get a new machine up to speed. In fact, I have just |
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> realized I don't have tcsh installed, something I hardly EVER use, but need |
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> to run a one of a kind script. |
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> Can anyone make a suggestion? Am I missing something? |
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> Thanks |
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> Alan Davis |
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You already have such a thing - it's the entire contents of: |
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/etc/portage/* |
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/etc/make.conf |
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/etc/make.profile |
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/var/lib/portage/world* |
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Copy those files to a destination machine, adapt variable things like CHOST |
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and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to the new machine, and let portage do it's thing. |
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If you simply want a list of packages (sans USE flags etc), "emerge -e world" |
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and parse it through your favourite text pipes (grep, sed, awk, etc) then |
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redirect somewhere |
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If you want a list of installed packages with USE flags, "emerge -e world" |
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Note that these last two just give you a (mostly) human readable list. They |
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are not much use to portage. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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