Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

[Wade Brown]

Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use "emerge
--emptytree --deep --newuse world", and portage won't complain that
packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly
in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage
itself.

On 7/6/05, David Morgan <david.morgan@××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On 11:44 Wed 06 Jul     , Mike Markowski wrote:
> > I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to
> > easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy.
> >
> > After installing, will it be enough to use my current
> > /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by 'emerge -uDf
> > world', etc., to get me going?  Or am I overlooking other important
> > system files?  (I'll remember to remove hardware dependent world entries
> > like graphics card drivers.)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Mike
>
> Not exactly - you can't just copy /var/lib/portage/world, since portage
> will complain about packages in the world file not being installed (at
> least, that was the behaviour not long ago and I don't imagine it's
> changed).
>
> You can however copy /var/lib/portage/world to some other location on
> your new computer, and do something like emerge `cat oldworld`.
>
> You might want to copy things other than just /etc/make.conf from your
> current install - if you've edited any config files (say /etc/vim/vimrc,
> for example). I can't think of anything you'll definitely want to copy
> across when changing computers, just stuff that you know you've edited a
> lot and don't want to loose. (Oh, and I assume you know that you might
> need to have a different make.conf to before depending on how different
> the 2 computers are).
>
> Dave
>
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