Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Nevynxxx
Neil Bothwick wrote: That's still two commands :) You can do it in one with emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:33:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: emerge -uavDN @world xfce4 Only if your portage supports @world, not sure if mine does yet :) It should, unless you are woefully out of date. -- Neil Bothwick Mr. bullfrog says: time's fun when you're having flies. signature.asc

[gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to transfer a GenToo installation from old hardware to a new machine (adm64). I've a running Gentoo system which has exactly the same hardware as these new machines but this system has much fewer packages installed. Is it possible to clone this running Gentoo system, essentially

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: Is it possible to clone this running Gentoo system, essentially overwrite /var/lib/portage/world with the larger version of the old hardware except some 64bit related packages and then run emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-23 Thread Nevynxxx
Neil Bothwick wrote: uninstalled packages. Copy the world file from the other machine somewhere other than /var/lib/portage and run emerge -n $(cat /path/to/otherworld) Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing I've never seen that, and yes, I've been known to

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto?

2009-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:35:37 +0100, Nevynxxx wrote: Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing I've never seen that, and yes, I've been known to add a package atom to the end of the world file when I wanted to update world, and add a package at the same time (xfce4