On Sunday 21 August 2011 02:08:51 Paul Hartman wrote: > Could I just export the entire laptop - everything from the root > directory and below - and chroot into that over the network? Then I > wouldn't even need to emerge -k...
No, I tried that and got myself tied in knots - well, actually it was the whole portage tree that I exported, not the entire system. I forget what went wrong now, but it's definitely cleaner to tell the server to build the packages and the client to install from them. The emerge -k step is quick too, and you have the advantage that you can see whether the packages are actually there, unless you've switched colours off or not specified -v. (I once found that they weren't there, which prompted me to go looking for the config problem. Like Dale, I'm quite a good tester!) You just have to make sure that the chroot is identical to the client. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23
