On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 04:35, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:10:37AM +0100, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote > > > >> I don't think I made myself clear enough. I do *NOT* want to > > >>duplicate /portage/distfiles. I want to duplicate machine A's > > >>definition > > >>of "world" on Machine B. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >try: > > ># emerge -uDpv --newuse --noreplace $WORLD_OF_PIII > > >this should both keep updated your machine and emerge all the packages > > >not present. > > >The --noreplace is needed to not force portage recompile a package > > >already present. > > > > better: > > > > # scp 192.168.0.2:/var/lib/portage/world /tmp/piii_world > > # emerge -uDav --newuse --noreplace $(cat /tmp/piii_world) > > > > on your p4 > > Thank you very much. That's exactly what I was looking for.
SInce we're talking about it _this_ way, is there any possibility in actually just mounting NFS that points straight to /var/lib/portage/world?? That way, the scp won't be needed. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:08:08 up 6:48, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.34, 0.43 -- [email protected] mailing list
