On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Stroller wrote:

> 
> On Oct 24, 2003, at 2:02 pm, Leonid Podolny wrote:
> 
> To duplicate the same set of _installed_ packages it's
>    $ emerge `cat /var/cache/edb/copy-of-world-from-other-machine`
> But this is time-consuming. If your machines are of similar 
> architecture & USE flags it might be worth looking at quickpkg & the -K 
> (?) option to emerge.
> 

I thought about doing it, but as a matter of fact it's a hardware 
downgrade, so the binaries won't run on the new (older) machine.
If I just emerge all the packages the other machine, it will also 
replace glibc and gcc,that were just bootstraped. Isn't it dangerous?

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