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 Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
