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 1NPCY6-00036Z-Kp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:10:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4850CE0A7C for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from der-root.de (der-root.de [78.46.36.110]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA2AE0806 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [78.46.36.110] (der-root [78.46.36.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by der-root.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F0B1220C044 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:44:51 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B386FFF.7010307@smash-net.org> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:44:47 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto generate a list of installed packages? References: <7bef1f890912272350v6fdfb583u6188fc22eff3b31b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890912272350v6fdfb583u6188fc22eff3b31b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3de1cf8d-e1ef-4d0d-bb9d-dbe2606e645d X-Archives-Hash: 5c089318baf085c62d1a75757f28e3fe Alan E. Davis wrote: > Season's Greetings to one and all. > > I would like to be able to generate a script or list of packages of > some kind that would enable me to install Gentoo with an identical > profile of installed packages. Since with Debian/Ubuntu one can run > dpkg --get-selections > file > and > dpkg --set-selections < file > (or some such), one imagines that the Gentoo gurus/magicians are able > to do something similar. > > It takes me months to get a new machine up to speed. In fact, I have > just realized I don't have tcsh installed, something I hardly EVER > use, but need to run a one of a kind script. > > Can anyone make a suggestion? Am I missing something? > > Thanks > > Alan Davis /var/lib/portage/world contains all packages you installed. Copy that file over to you new system and do a emerge --sync && emerge -puDN world and you should be done. Norman