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

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 08:25, George Shapovalov wrote:
> 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
    (to a different directory)
> 3. do "emerge -[p]e world" or even simply "emerge world"
    emerge $(cat world)

Emerge now checks to see if a package listed in the world file is installed 
before doing anything with it. If it's not installed, it is skipped.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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