Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 have been installed. (Busted). I was not responsible enough to verify that the clone was 100% similar with the identical ebuilds. I thought I had found a way to duplicate the installed software, merely by copying the world file from another system. I don't know if it's generally possible, because there are so many ways to get from-here-to-there. The following is my *ENTIRE* world file. Yes, I'm running Blackbox WM on X. Three guesses on how I managed to do this. [m3000][root][~] cat /var/lib/portage/world media-sound/alsa-utils media-sound/mpg123 sys-fs/reiserfsprogs app-text/xpdf net-misc/urlview sys-kernel/linux-headers sys-boot/lilo media-gfx/gimp app-office/gnumeric app-admin/sudo net-misc/rdate net-analyzer/traceroute x11-misc/fbpanel app-admin/syslog-ng media-video/mplayer media-sound/xmms x11-misc/bbkeys media-gfx/gqview app-office/abiword sys-process/dcron net-dialup/pppconfig net-mail/getmail mail-client/mutt net-nntp/slrn net-misc/whois media-video/realplayer sys-libs/glibc www-client/mozilla-firefox app-editors/nano app-arch/gzip sys-kernel/gentoo-sources app-admin/logrotate sys-devel/gettext net-firewall/iptables app-portage/gentoolkit mail-filter/procmail app-editors/vim app-misc/mc -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 PROTECTED] 'cd /mnt/gentoo; tar -xz' Won't you need tar xpz to preserve file ownership and permissions? -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 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' Won't you need tar xpz to preserve file ownership and permissions? -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 responsible enough to verify that the clone was 100% similar with the identical ebuilds. I thought I had found a way to duplicate the installed software, merely by copying the world file from another system. Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, with the installed list of ebuilds matching? thoughts and ideas? James No guru but I would think a emerge -e world would make it install the same packages. You would have to make sure your USE line is the same in make.conf. I did this on my main rig a while back. It worked for me but I copied world and make.conf over. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 verify that the clone was 100% similar with the identical ebuilds. I thought I had found a way to duplicate the installed software, merely by copying the world file from another system. Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, with the installed list of ebuilds matching? thoughts and ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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:^:=:' portage.list # xargs emerge -YOUROPTS portage.list If the systems are identical, you can use quickpkg to make packages from your active system, configs and all, then use those packages to emerge -K on the other systems. -- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 actually just use an external HD, that I'm building gentoo on. My primary box has it's portage on the external HD, and I'm trying to install all the packages i need on it. So, if I need a new system, I just copy the entire gentoo system off the external HD, to a new system, and then change configs. On 1/5/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 responsible enough to verify that the clone was 100% similar with the identical ebuilds. I thought I had found a way to duplicate the installed software, merely by copying the world file from another system. Any better ideas on how to duplicate gentoo systems, with the installed list of ebuilds matching? thoughts and ideas? James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating
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 installed, along with all dependencies. -- Neil Bothwick When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
