Hello, On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote: > Throught the years I've build-up a good collection of gentoo packages that I'm > currently running on my notebook. Now that I need to move to a new notebook, I > build another gentoo system where everything were smooth and I did a emerge > world/systems to get everything update. Now the question is - how do get > gentoo > to emerge the exact same number of package like my old notebook? I've > attempted > to move /var/lib/portage/world(which contain all the packages that I need) to > the new notebook and start a emerge world. I got an error and ask me to > "emaint > -c" that I follow diligently which didn't quite help. I follow up with a > "emaint > -f" and somehow it just get rid of all the packages that I need :(
I would try (since the file looks quite friendly) emerge -va `cat /var/lib/portage/world` -- chown -R us $BASE Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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