On Saturday, 26 February 2022 12:07:40 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > spareproject776 <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 06:47:12PM +0800, Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I'm a sort-of newbie gentoo user and I just wanted to ask if what I'm > >> thinking is possible or if I'm just being stupid. But either way, I was > >> wondering if it is possible to export a list of all installed software > >> in emerge and use that to recreate on another gentoo install. > >> > >> I have a bunch of PCs that are all similarly specced and I wanted to > >> create a minimal install "template" for all of them. If not, would it be > >> possible to pipe-in to emerge from stdin an output of all of the package > >> names that I wanted it to emerge? > >> > >> I'm really sorry if this might be a stupid question. I'd appreciate any > >> guidance in the matter. > >> > >> Cheers! > > > > emerge -avbk $(tr '\n' ' ' < /var/lib/portage/world) > > > > If your doing more than one box binhost / binpkg has a far higher return > > for alot more effort upfront provided you can live with -mtune=generic. > > Thanks! I will check this out.
This is the page which explains how to build binary packages on one host and then install them on other PCs, without having to re-complile/rebuild them from source: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide It saves a lot of time, especially if you want to update slower machines.
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