Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-07 Thread Benjamin Fritzsche
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17:44, Mike Markowski wrote: I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. After installing, will it be enough to use my current /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed

[gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Markowski
I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. After installing, will it be enough to use my current /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by 'emerge -uDf world', etc., to get me going? Or am I

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 11:44 Wed 06 Jul , Mike Markowski wrote: I'll be changing jobs Monday and want to be sure I bring along enough to easily rebuild the sort of gentoo set up I currently enjoy. After installing, will it be enough to use my current /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/make.conf followed by

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Wade Brown
Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world, and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage itself. On 7/6/05, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 09:52 Wed 06 Jul , Wade Brown wrote: Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world, and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet,

RE: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world, and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage itself. Oddly

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:31:03 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: But I'd still be worried that adding a package that does not have dependencies satisfied to the world file would not be a good thing (unless of course you are using the emptytree option). I don't see why it should cause a problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread David Morgan
On 19:04 Wed 06 Jul , Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 13:31:03 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: But I'd still be worried that adding a package that does not have dependencies satisfied to the world file would not be a good thing (unless of course you are using the emptytree