Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] cloning systems across architectures

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:44, Anthony Dodson wrote:
> For instance, how can one move the definition of the "world" class to the
> new machine (bootstrapped) and then emerge all that software at once?  Is
> there a better approach?
So, you basically have two different systems and you want to optimize both (so 
no common denominator) or they are different arches,  meaning that you would 
rather recompile; but you would rather not mess with all the individual 
packages? Is this the situation?
Then yes, no need to go package by package:
1. clone your /etc/make.conf and adjust C[XX]FLAGS correspondingly (but keep 
USE definition identical)
2. copy /var/cache/edb/world over
3. do "emerge -[p]e world" or even simply "emerge world"

If your system as up for a while you might want to clean its contents first 
(you will be amazed at what you have accumulated over this time ;)). Oh and 
you might also want to run "emerge depclean -p" and add the packages from the 
listing it gives you that you think you will  want..

George


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