Hi oom! I think that on the thread that you are talking about, it was said that just copying the world file over to the new system doesn't really work. You have to do something like:
emerge `cat /path/to/the/old/world` to get every package that you had in your old system. On 05 Aug 2003 12:06:21 +1200 oom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As discused on a previous thread for rebuilding another gentoo box.. i > have done the following: > > I may be a bit of a nitwit... > > Started with stage 3 > emerged system and some other basic things. > > copied make.conf and /var/cache/edb/world from another system, > modified make.conf to suit.. > > Now when I do emerge world -p instead of building the packages in the > world file it does this.. root # emerge world -p > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies > *** Package in world file is not installed: app-text/spellutils > etc for each package in world file. > > How do I force it to install things from the world file? > > > > Thanks, > ooM > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
