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 1MTsC2-0002FI-6L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:54:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C9E5E01DF; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:54:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04FEDE01DF for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:54:17 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KN800HZN36GZH50@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:16 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,252,1246831200"; d="scan'208";a="20058846" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:16 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n6N6sGLs027751 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 3EB75107B78; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] cloning + upgrade howto? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: X-Archives-Salt: a366a70e-3760-4bbd-8fda-40069dee639d X-Archives-Hash: abb8e2560145fca7406a7d3621816697 Hi, I'd like to transfer a GenToo installation from old hardware to a new machine (adm64). I've a running Gentoo system which has exactly the same hardware as these new machines but this system has much fewer packages installed. Is it possible to clone this running Gentoo system, essentially overwrite /var/lib/portage/world with the larger version of the old hardware except some 64bit related packages and then run emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world on the new machine. Or are the any snags? Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany