On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated > > one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE > > flags (that would not change the overall behaviour of what is > > already there), emerge a lot of new packages, and basically arrive > > at what you have on the bloated machine? > > No, > > Years ago they were similar. Then the minimal system lost a hard > drive and I reinstalled it, as a minimal gentoo server. The bloated > one has been a workstation and had all sorts of gui/kde stuffage > installed on it.
I had a somewhat similar setup between a desktop machine at home (never connected to the internet) and my notebook. I went for the simplest possible solution: emerge -pvfuND world on desktop, get a list of sources to download download those sources onto notebook next day at work nfs mount the portage and distfiles dirs from notebook to desktop rsync portage dir prepended nfs mounted distfiles to GENTOO_MIRRORS emerge -avuND world True, it needed a fair amount of manual intervention and sometimes I would miss a source file that needed to be downloaded, so the process would take a day longer, but this was far easier to do once a month than concoct some other automated solution -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
