Hello Jerry McBride, > Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a > duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build > process I run this script via cron... > > #!/bin/sh > > rm /portage.list/*.* > > emerge -pe --color=n system > /portage.list/system.list > emerge -pe --color=n world > /portage.list/world.list > > Basicly it generates a list of installed ebuilds for both the system > and world model.
Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world? Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file. The system list is contained in your profile, so you just need a note of where /etc/make.profile points, which you will already have is you backup /etc. -- Neil Bothwick If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.
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