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noff
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 Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 12:42 am Post subject: Exporting your World for backup |
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Is there any way one could export their world file for and restore it later, so for an new install all I would have to do isand my system would be back to the way it is now.
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m0pr0be
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| Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 11:57 am Post subject: |
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hi,
the world file is under /var/cache/edb/world. you can manipulate it to your like.
to get a list of installed packages (without duplicates), type:
you can pipe the output to some file and save that file.
you need the gentoolkit ebuild installed to run the qpkg command.
i'm not sure how to handle duplicates, when restoring your system.
anyway i would recommend to emerge your packages with --buildpkg everytime you emerge new packages. Then you can save your .tbz2 files under /usr/portage/packages/All over a reinstall and you can do emerge --usepkg world to save some time compiling. |
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noff
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Is there anyway to get the exact version of the package without greping or something? The difference between xfree4.2.1-r2 and xfree-4.2.1-r3
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rac
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| Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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noff, does "qpkg -I -nc -v" do what you want?
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