On Sunday 21 September 2003 08:48, Owen Gunden wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 07:51:15AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > Is it enough to copy the /usr/portage dir? > > > > That's almost enough. You probably want to delete the original portage > > tree on the second computer before copying and then, after the copy > > completes, run fixpackages. > > I use nfs to share /usr/portage among three gentoo boxes, and I've found > that fixpackages runs automatically before the next emerge operation on the > two boxes which don't get synced explicitly. So I don't think you need to > run fixpackages. > > But then again, I have no binary packages.
No, if portage detects that fixpackages needs to be run and runs it automatically, binary packages would be fixed as well. fixpackages does more than fix binary packages, though; it also fixes the installation database when ebuilds are moved within the portage tree (e.g. app-games/* to games-*/ *). If the computers are continuously networked then NFS is definately the way to go. Otherwise, would need to delete original portage tree and copy new one each time. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
