On Dec 5, 2011 10:42 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> writes: > > > Just before emerging the source, you really should tarball *everything* > > (except /proc, /sys, /var/tmp/*, and /usr/portage/distfiles/*), so you can > > just 'pick up where you left it' :-) > > > > That's almost as slow as starting over from scratch... hehe. >
In my case, I've successfully re-used the "stage3.5" tarball anytime I need to deploy a new Gentoo VM. Saves on download time :-) (I also have gcc upgraded to 4.5.3 and performed the acrobatics necessary to activate gcc's Graphite feature, and upgraded glibc, *before* creating stage3.5, so yes it's a huge timesaver for me) Rgds,
