Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 May 2007 03:07:57 -0500, »Q« wrote: If you populate your world file first (by hand if you like), then one emerge -ef world should get you all the files you might need. That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with our world file and bail out. Put the packages

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread burlingk
That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with our world file and bail out. Ah, thanks. I didn't realize emerge was unhappy with packages in world which are not already installed. Put the packages you want in a file like world then do emerge -ef $(cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:09:04 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the packages you want in a file like world then do emerge -ef $(cat myworld). Another option might be to just go ahead and buckle down and 'emerge -au world', then start the process. Which won't do much if your world