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 /var/lib/portage/world contains all packages you installed. Copy that file over to you new system and do a emerge --sync && emerge -puDN world and you should be done.
Norman
