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On 2/3/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: |
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> > Throught the years I've build-up a good collection of gentoo packages that I'm |
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> > currently running on my notebook. Now that I need to move to a new notebook, I |
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> > build another gentoo system where everything were smooth and I did a emerge |
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> > world/systems to get everything update. Now the question is - how do get gentoo |
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> > to emerge the exact same number of package like my old notebook? I've attempted |
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> > to move /var/lib/portage/world(which contain all the packages that I need) to |
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> > the new notebook and start a emerge world. I got an error and ask me to "emaint |
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> > -c" that I follow diligently which didn't quite help. I follow up with a "emaint |
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> > -f" and somehow it just get rid of all the packages that I need :( |
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> I would try (since the file looks quite friendly) emerge -va `cat |
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> /var/lib/portage/world` |
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Perhaps emerge -va `cat /var/lib/portage/world | xargs`? |
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I have found that bash worries about newlines in the middle of arguments |
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Ryan W Sims |
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