[gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > You wouldn't be able to use -march like this with two different cpus, > you'd have to set it to something compatible with both, say i686. That's > why I said "provided your USE and CFLAGS are the same" in my original > post. Got it. Thanks guys... James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:20:10 + (UTC), James wrote: > Yes, OK. I want to play with this manually for a few weeks, then I'll > use buildpkg and PGKDIR. One last qustion. If the USE settings are > identical and the CFLAGS are similar between an AMD and Intel, can I > use the approach with one sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-13 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Thursday 13 October 2005 03:20 pm, James wrote: > Yes, OK. I want to play with this manually for a few weeks, then I'll > use buildpkg and PGKDIR. One last qustion. If the USE settings are > identical and the CFLAGS are similar between an AMD and Intel, can I use > the approach with one system b

[gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-13 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > Well, OK. But if I want to try this method manually first, then I'd: > > 1. scp the var/lib/portage/world to the second system. > > 2. ensure the make.conf USE setting are identical (they are) > > 3. "emerge -uavD world" > > 4. No need for the PKGDIR is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:37:39 + (UTC), James wrote: > > Is the first portable always updated first? If so, I'd add buildpkg to > > FEATURES in /etc/make.conf and make PKGDIR a directory accessible to > > both, possibly via NFS. Then, provided your USE and CFLAGS are the > > same (running the sa

[gentoo-user] Re: synchronizing 2 portables

2005-10-13 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > I'd go with Unison, it's ideal for this sort of thing. OK > > AS far as keeping the installed packages /ebuilds/ concurrent, > > in some sort of semi-automated method, I'd settle for a script > > I could run that would check the installed packages, on bot