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 'emerge -uDf > world', etc., to get me going? Or am I overlooking other important > system files? (I'll remember to remove hardware dependent world entries > like graphics card drivers.) > > Thanks! > Mike
Not exactly - you can't just copy /var/lib/portage/world, since portage will complain about packages in the world file not being installed (at least, that was the behaviour not long ago and I don't imagine it's changed). You can however copy /var/lib/portage/world to some other location on your new computer, and do something like emerge `cat oldworld`. You might want to copy things other than just /etc/make.conf from your current install - if you've edited any config files (say /etc/vim/vimrc, for example). I can't think of anything you'll definitely want to copy across when changing computers, just stuff that you know you've edited a lot and don't want to loose. (Oh, and I assume you know that you might need to have a different make.conf to before depending on how different the 2 computers are). Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
