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From: Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 15:53:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <77849c8e-e8ac-0371-0b1c-439ba0f89124@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200405174143.fo2ub6k54qjvtqsx@matica>

On 4/5/20 1:41 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-04-04 20:03, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't transferring the world file be enough?
>>
>> Is it?
> As far as I know, for having the same packages pulled in, this
> is all that matters (plus possibly @world_sets as Neil mentions).
>
> Of course you have all sorts of other configuration to replicate,
> including portage's.  That's what git is for :-P.

I suspect those portage config files become even more important if you 
have any unstable (~) packages installed.  If a package has no stable 
versions in the tree, then I don't think it will get installed at all, 
without keywording it.  Even more true if you have a masked package 
installed.

Jack



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-05 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-04 17:34 [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc? tuxic
2020-04-04 17:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-04 18:03   ` tuxic
2020-04-05 17:41     ` Ian Zimmerman
2020-04-05 19:53       ` Jack [this message]
2020-04-05 19:57         ` Jack
2020-04-04 21:26   ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-04 23:46     ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-04 18:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 18:23   ` tuxic
2020-04-04 18:57     ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 18:33   ` Dale
2020-04-04 21:42     ` John Covici
2020-04-04 22:24       ` Dale
2020-04-04 18:25 ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-04 19:05   ` tuxic
2020-04-04 19:29     ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-04 19:30     ` Mark Knecht
2020-04-04 19:59       ` tuxic
2020-04-05  9:21         ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2020-04-05  9:29           ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-04 21:56 ` Grant Taylor
2020-04-05  8:17   ` tuxic
2020-04-05  9:28     ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 12:52       ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-05 12:56         ` Ashley Dixon
2020-04-05 13:37           ` Michael
2020-04-05 14:56           ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-05 18:08           ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-05 19:39             ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 10:17               ` Peter Humphrey
2020-04-06 21:02         ` antlists
2020-04-06 21:15           ` Neil Bothwick
2020-04-06 23:38             ` Michael
2020-04-07 15:23               ` antlists
2020-04-11 15:37               ` Marc Joliet
2020-04-08  1:02             ` William Kenworthy
2020-04-05  9:46     ` Michael
2020-04-05 10:52       ` tuxic

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