oom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have been pondering the fastest way to setup other gentoo boxes eg: > > I setup 1 box with the config I want and maybe even do a emerge -b so > that binary packages are created. > > Now I want to go to another box install the base and type emerge world > and watch the distro put itself together with the same pacakge > configuration (minus /etc/ files etc).. how is the best way to do this ? > > I was thinking mounting the /usr/portage/distfiles via nfs (or copy them > local) and grab the /var/db/pkg directory > then emerge world -e > > Are there any other files or directories I will need to nab ?
Instead of /var/db/pkg/, what you probably want is /var/cache/edb/world. Then emerge -u world should do it. (Test for yourself) Sharing or scp'ing distfiles is also a good idea, as you mentioned. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
