From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ic7Mr-0003MM-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:34:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8UMON1X018210; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:24:23 GMT Received: from alnrmhc13.comcast.net (alnrmhc13.comcast.net [206.18.177.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8UMKBT7013499 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:20:11 GMT Received: from spinner (c-69-242-77-91.hsd1.nj.comcast.net[69.242.77.91]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20070930222010b13000b581e>; Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:20:10 +0000 From: Jerry McBride Organization: TEAM-LINUX To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:20:01 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <49bf44f10709291526s46c5c1ebrb34a7171215a3db2@mail.gmail.com> <200709301616.03663.mcbrides9@comcast.net> <20070930230230.7ef66025@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070930230230.7ef66025@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709301820.01084.mcbrides9@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: 10421034-9cc2-4a2f-8310-bf87c1e344d4 X-Archives-Hash: d7b7b0c65005db5d580d5cf37affb20f On Sunday 30 September 2007 06:02:30 pm Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Jerry McBride, > > > Just my two cents worth here. Often I find a need to generate a > > duplicate of an existing gentoo installation and to ease the build > > process I run this script via cron... > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > > rm /portage.list/*.* > > > > emerge -pe --color=3Dn system > /portage.list/system.list > > emerge -pe --color=3Dn world > /portage.list/world.list > > > > Basicly it generates a list of installed ebuilds for both the system > > and world model. > > Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world? Your > method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their > dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file. > It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all you=20 need... > The system list is contained in your profile, so you just need a note of > where /etc/make.profile points, which you will already have is you > backup /etc. =2D-=20 =46rom the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list