On 2/3/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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Ryan W Sims
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