Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage questions

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 09/16/2015 06:13 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 1)
>   Is there a way to generate a snapshot of an installed portage VDB and then later
>   compare that snapshot against the current VDB and generate a list of
>   added/updated packages?

This command will generate a flat file that is useful for comparisons
with diff -u:

    qlist -IvCURS | LC_ALL=C sort

> 2)
>   Currently we generate a tar file with binary pkgs containing all updated pkgs,
>   unpack the tar file and emerge the binary pkgs with emerge --usepkgonly ...
>   into a new ROOT. This works but that misses any updates to the profile(both gentoo and our own).
> 
>   To fix that we include a copy of both profiles in the tar file and copy our
>   updated profiles into the new ROOT profiles before merging. This feels a bit
>   clumsy and I wonder if there is a better way? 
> 
>  Jocke
> 

Like Duncan said, I feel like we're missing some context here. I wonder
why you use binary packages instead of a full system image, considering
that it's a "new ROOT."
-- 
Thanks,
Zac