I would really love to see this work but unfortunately it doesn't you get *** Package in world file is not installed: bla/bla
and it dies. (you too can experience this just put a valid non-installed package into your world file and do a emerge -u world) I have been experimenting with injecting the stubs first (with emerge -i bla/bla-version) and combined with a stage3 install doing a emerge -e world. With some simple bash for loops its not hard to set this up, the problems I have encountered so far are these. First virtual/bla packages sometimes block each other (I have postfix in my world file and vcron insists on installing ssmtp first) stopping the compile. Also kernel modules pose a problem (I also have nvidia-glx in my world file as well as alsa-driver) that can be overcome by compiling a kernel first, but some packages (qce-ga for example) use the actual kernel version thats running to determine the correct location to install modules, hence stopping the compile. The last problem I had was general failed compiles, and there is absolutely no way to "restart" the -e world without doing it again. After 4 installs each stopping for various reasons at an average of 12 hours in each install I gave up and am going back to the drawing board. I personally would Love to see installing packages from the world file be incorporated, what are other peoples thoughts or experiences with this? On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:09:29AM +0200, myciel wrote: > maybe its enough to install "base" gentoo > than cp /var/cache/edb/world file from Your first instalation > than emerge rsync > than emerge world > > I'm not sure if this works but I'm sure there is an easy way to clone > Your current portage database > to different machine. > > > regards > > myciel -- Douglas Peter Sculley GnuPG key available at www.usal.us Key fingerprint = 9030 49CE A54F 1920 05E7 FE41 3E34 6C16 E4BB 8A7D
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