From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTsQr-0004pA-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:09:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 934E6E015B; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DB3E015B for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:09:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D94B54BCDD3 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:09:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:09:24 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto? Message-ID: <20090723080924.2e730943@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs11 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/FTeVqC2GxKAkb7x7FhoT9Xo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: c594a7fd-0b37-4b06-a89d-7f1603a3a4a4 X-Archives-Hash: 55345ac9c05605b6a8bb20cfc24bc2b9 --Sig_/FTeVqC2GxKAkb7x7FhoT9Xo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Is it possible to clone this running Gentoo system, essentially > overwrite > /var/lib/portage/world > with the larger version of the old hardware except some 64bit related > packages and then run > emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world > on the new machine. >=20 > Or are the any snags? Only one, portage will barf when you have a world file containing uninstalled packages. Copy the world file from the other machine somewhere other than /var/lib/portage and run emerge -n $(cat /path/to/otherworld) --=20 Neil Bothwick Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. --Sig_/FTeVqC2GxKAkb7x7FhoT9Xo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpoDKkACgkQum4al0N1GQMT4gCgvkN0U7iI+7HcufrzpC7gdzoA QMAAoNpOk4w6UEsTRFVSKWlmseDIqs1b =1/1G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/FTeVqC2GxKAkb7x7FhoT9Xo--