Hi,

From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
>On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:43:21 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:

>> You can pull the ebuilds out of /var/db/pkg/ on your old system and
>> put them in your local overlay.

>Be aware that /var/db/pkg only contains the ebuilds, not any other files
>needed from /usr/portage, such as patches, so this only works for a
>limited number of packages.

Another idea - would it be a good idea to quickpkg the 1.3 JDKs on my OLD 
system (where they are installed) and move them over to the new system? But 
then I would not get updated - but as the ebuilds (and JAVA 1.3 general) are 
unmaintained anyways, what the hell :-)
Comments?

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