On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Daiajo Tibdixious <dai...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know when I do an emerge world it looks at /var/lib/portage/world > for the list of packages. > I went looking for a 'system' list for the emerge system command & did > not find it. > I also looked in make.profile and didn't find anything likely. > I also googled my query but got too many spurious matches. > I'm sure there is a simple answer. > > I want to write a script that reads the system list, finds the > binpkg's, and copies the latest to backup. > I can do this easy for the world list. > -- > Daiajo Tibdixious dai...@gmail.com >
With the newer versions of portage (2.2.x) you can do emerge -pve @system On my box it returned a result of 439 packages. Seems high, but... You can temporarily move /var/lib/portage/world to some other name. With the world file gone there's nothing to install to satisfy the @world set. With this setup I did emerge -pve @world and got a result of 439 package, so at least there is agreement. Now, I don't truly believe all of these 439 packages are necessary to complete @system as my 32-bit Gentoo VM only has 174 packages in @world. Go figure, and don't forget to move the world file back again... ;-) HTH, Mark
