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* Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating gentoo to a new machine
  @ 2007-02-04 14:49 99%   ` Ryan Sims
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From: Ryan Sims @ 2007-02-04 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 2/3/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner@kdemail.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 04:08:41PM +0800, Seo Boon, NG wrote:
> > Throught the years I've build-up a good collection of gentoo packages that I'm
> > currently running on my notebook. Now that I need to move to a new notebook, I
> > build another gentoo system where everything were smooth and I did a emerge
> > world/systems to get everything update. Now the question is - how do get gentoo
> > to emerge the exact same number of package like my old notebook? I've attempted
> > to move /var/lib/portage/world(which contain all the packages that I need) to
> > the new notebook and start a emerge world. I got an error and ask me to "emaint
> > -c" that I follow diligently which didn't quite help. I follow up with a "emaint
> > -f" and somehow it just get rid of all the packages that I need :(
>
> I would try (since the file looks quite friendly) emerge -va `cat
> /var/lib/portage/world`

Perhaps emerge -va `cat /var/lib/portage/world | xargs`?
I have found that bash worries about newlines in the middle of arguments


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