On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. >
It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all you need... > 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. -- From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
