Re: [gentoo-user] Re: move instalation from one system to another one.

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Stroller
>>
>> <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>> > On 31 Jul 2008, at 19:50, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>> >> ...
>> >> Note the "emerge -e world" is not what we need here as it will leave
>> >> broken system packages (the system won't boot on the new processor).
>> >> The '-e' option looks for the USE flags only.
>> >
>> > From `man emerge`
>> >
>> >       --emptytree (-e)
>> >              Reinstalls all world packages and their dependencies ...
>>
>> Nicolas, Stroller (and the man page) is right...
>>
>> As "system" is part of "world", an "emerge -e world" would recompile
>> every single package, along with all dependencies, a full system
>> recompile, if you, for instance, change your CFLAGs to a generic one
>> before it, at the end your system would be prepared to be used with a
>> different processor.
>
> not anymore. system was taken out of world.
>
> http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=121607297615623&w=2
>

I see, so you need a "emerge -e system" in order to "emerge -e world"
properly and make sure changes affect all packages.

One more thing to keep note next time I transfer my system...

-- 
Daniel da Veiga