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QPegasus · Post by **QPegasus** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 5:38 pm

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere, if it is I couldnt see it.

I've been thinking about a way of quickly getting Gentoo installed again, should the worst ever happen (ie. I bork my system).

I'm currently thinking the best idea is to make binaries of everything I use, using emerge -B, then burning my /usr/portage/packages to a CD. Then, in future once I've installed the gentoo base, I just copy my binaries across to the new install, along with a world file containing them (and whatever deps of course) and do "emerge -k world".

So, will this work?

Thanks.

adaptr · Post by **adaptr** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 6:36 pm

If you haven't changed the default make.conf behaviour, binary packages will ALREADY be built for everything you emerge.

They're in /usr/portage/packages - for a full (desktop) install there will be 500MB+ of tbz2's in there.

And don't use emerge -k - that will still fetch & compile everything there is a newer package for.
Use emerge -K to force it to only use binary packages.

Also be sure to save your portage tree in this case, so it matches the saved binaries when you want to re-install.

QPegasus · Post by **QPegasus** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 8:48 pm

Thanks for the advice.

btw, in my make.conf, buildpkg wasnt set by default, nor were any other portage features.

adaptr · Post by **adaptr** » Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:24 pm

Well, that could depend on your portage version; I'm running 2.0.49-r21