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James wrote: |
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>Hello, |
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>Some time ago, I copied a world file (/var/lib/portage/world) |
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>from a system with lots of installed software to a 'clone' |
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>system newly installed with gentoo.... |
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>Now 'emaint --check world' suggests that not all of those packages have |
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>been installed. (Busted). I was not responsible enough to verify |
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>that the clone was 100% similar with the identical ebuilds. |
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>I thought I had found a way to duplicate the installed software, |
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>merely by copying the world file from another system. |
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>Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, |
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>with the installed list of ebuilds matching? |
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>thoughts and ideas? |
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>James |
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No guru but I would think a emerge -e world would make it install the |
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same packages. You would have to make sure your USE line is the same in |
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make.conf. I did this on my main rig a while back. It worked for me but |
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I copied world and make.conf over. |
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Dale |
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:-) |
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To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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I have four rigs: |
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1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker |
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2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty |
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3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey |
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4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput |
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All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. |
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