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
next prev parent 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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