Michael <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
Thanks! I've been thinking of doing something like this too or probably
distcc. But yeah, I'll check this out.
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