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On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated |
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> > one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE |
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> > flags (that would not change the overall behaviour of what is |
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> > already there), emerge a lot of new packages, and basically arrive |
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> > at what you have on the bloated machine? |
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> No, |
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> Years ago they were similar. Then the minimal system lost a hard |
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> drive and I reinstalled it, as a minimal gentoo server. The bloated |
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> one has been a workstation and had all sorts of gui/kde stuffage |
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> installed on it. |
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I had a somewhat similar setup between a desktop machine at home (never |
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connected to the internet) and my notebook. I went for the simplest |
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possible solution: |
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emerge -pvfuND world on desktop, get a list of sources to download |
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download those sources onto notebook next day at work |
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nfs mount the portage and distfiles dirs from notebook to desktop |
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rsync portage dir |
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prepended nfs mounted distfiles to GENTOO_MIRRORS |
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emerge -avuND world |
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True, it needed a fair amount of manual intervention and sometimes I |
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would miss a source file that needed to be downloaded, so the process |
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would take a day longer, but this was far easier to do once a month |
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than concoct some other automated solution |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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