Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-07 Thread PaulNM
Trenton Adams wrote: I've never specified -p, so I think it must be default, because I always have permissions preserved when I use tar. Perhaps this is a GNU tar default setting? I believe it may be a default for root, but would put it in anyway to be safe. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 06:39:33PM +, James wrote Hello, Some time ago, I copied a world file (/var/lib/portage/world) from a system with lots of installed software to a 'clone' system newly installed with gentoo Now 'emaint --check world' suggests that not all of those packages

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-06 Thread Harald Arnesen
Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my entire system, and untar it on the new system. If your new system boots with the gentoo CD as well, then you can pipe this over ssh. Something like the following... cd /mnt/gentoo tar -cz ./ | ssh [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-06 Thread Trenton Adams
I've never specified -p, so I think it must be default, because I always have permissions preserved when I use tar. Perhaps this is a GNU tar default setting? On 1/6/06, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-05 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, Some time ago, I copied a world file (/var/lib/portage/world) from a system with lots of installed software to a 'clone' system newly installed with gentoo Now 'emaint --check world' suggests that not all of those packages have been installed. (Busted). I was not

[gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-05 Thread James
Hello, Some time ago, I copied a world file (/var/lib/portage/world) from a system with lots of installed software to a 'clone' system newly installed with gentoo Now 'emaint --check world' suggests that not all of those packages have been installed. (Busted). I was not responsible enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-05 Thread Lares Moreau
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:39 +, James wrote: Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, with the installed list of ebuilds matching? thoughts and ideas? To get a good list of all packages on your system use qlist (emerge portage-utils). # qlist -ICv |sed -e 's:^:=:'

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-05 Thread Trenton Adams
I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my entire system, and untar it on the new system. If your new system boots with the gentoo CD as well, then you can pipe this over ssh. Something like the following... cd /mnt/gentoo tar -cz ./ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cd /mnt/gentoo; tar -xz' I personally

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:39:33 + (UTC), James wrote: Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, with the installed list of ebuilds matching? cat /var/lib/portage/world | xargs emerge -uvp cat /var/lib/portage/world | xargs emerge -uv will ensure that everything in the world file is