On Monday 28 December 2009 09:50:31 Alan E. Davis wrote: > Season's Greetings to one and all. > > I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of some > kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical profile of > installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run > dpkg --get-selections > file > and > dpkg --set-selections < file > (or some such), one imagines that the Gentoo gurus/magicians are able to do > something similar. > > It takes me months to get a new machine up to speed. In fact, I have just > realized I don't have tcsh installed, something I hardly EVER use, but need > to run a one of a kind script. > > Can anyone make a suggestion? Am I missing something? > > Thanks > > Alan Davis >
You already have such a thing - it's the entire contents of: /etc/portage/* /etc/make.conf /etc/make.profile /var/lib/portage/world* Copy those files to a destination machine, adapt variable things like CHOST and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to the new machine, and let portage do it's thing. If you simply want a list of packages (sans USE flags etc), "emerge -e world" and parse it through your favourite text pipes (grep, sed, awk, etc) then redirect somewhere If you want a list of installed packages with USE flags, "emerge -e world" Note that these last two just give you a (mostly) human readable list. They are not much use to portage. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
