On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:00:28 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The straightforward way seems to be to copy the world file from the > current system to the new one (after finishing a basic installation > using the standard methods) and running "emerge -uaDvN world". Is this > likely to run me into problems? Perhaps I should prefer "emerge -1 `cat > old.world.file`?"
The last time I tried copying world, portage complained. emerge -u $(cat oldfile) worked, but you don't want -1 as you want the packages added to your new world. -- Neil Bothwick Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two.
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