[gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

[gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

[»Q«]

<burlingk@cv63.navy.mil> wrote:

> I think that a better option may be to decide which software I want,
> and use emerge -ef <package> on each of the big packages to get just
> what I need.

If you populate your world file first (by hand if you like), then one
emerge -ef world should get you all the files you might need.

Multiple emerge -ef <package> commands would work ok, but it would
involve a lot of unnecessary checksumming.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Tue, 22 May 2007 03:07:57 -0500, »Q« wrote:

> If you populate your world file first (by hand if you like), then one
> emerge -ef world should get you all the files you might need.

That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with our
world file and bail out. Put the packages you want in a file like world
then do "emerge -ef $(cat myworld)".


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[gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

[»Q«]

In <news:20070522093935.1f1881a6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>,
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 22 May 2007 03:07:57 -0500, »Q« wrote:
> 
> > If you populate your world file first (by hand if you like), then
> > one emerge -ef world should get you all the files you might need.
> 
> That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with
> our world file and bail out. 

Ah, thanks.  I didn't realize emerge was unhappy with packages in world
which are not already installed.

> Put the packages you want in a file like world then do 
> "emerge -ef $(cat myworld)".

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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

[burlingk]

> > 
> > That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with 
> > our world file and bail out.
> 
> Ah, thanks.  I didn't realize emerge was unhappy with 
> packages in world which are not already installed.
> 
> > Put the packages you want in a file like world then do
> > "emerge -ef $(cat myworld)".
> 
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> >Q<

Another option might be to just go ahead and buckle down and 
'emerge -au world', then start the process.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Theoretical install Question

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:09:04 +0900, burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:

> > > Put the packages you want in a file like world then do
> > > "emerge -ef $(cat myworld)".  

> Another option might be to just go ahead and buckle down and 
> 'emerge -au world', then start the process.

Which won't do much if your world file is more or less empty.


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