new system from world file

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Hi all

Is there any easy way to build a new system from an existing world file?

I try to copy the the world file from my old system to the new one and perform an

[javeree_work]

Not sure if this will work (I can't try it here), but try this

[opqdan]

would

[Taily]

Wouldn't

[kimchi_sg]

[Taily]

Hehe, so true ^^..
I mustn't have been thinking straight

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THX all

sometihing like that I did. Remember the "grep awk magic".

I was just thinking if there is a build in way to do it with emerge and I just missed it.


I think it would be cool to take the worldfile form system A place it to system B an say "emerge -option worldfile" to get the same applications with different CFLAGS etc.(

because every 3 years I get a new Latop and I want to have it the same way the old one without thinkig which application I may have missed.

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[kingcrunch]

new laptop (after 3 years) usually means new hardware, so using an old worldfile could cause
problems due to modules built by external software or other stuff. some stuff may even be deprecated cos its
been built into the kernel or other way round...

wouldn´t it be a little bit more intelligent to make sort of extra list of software that you urgently need
and may maintain when things change ?

probably some kind of

emerge -p world > listofsoftwareiurgentlyneed

then edit this list & delete everything thats related to specific hardware on your laptop.

then pass that stuff to emerge somehow...or edit your worldfile on the fresh system...whatever.


hope i didn´t write too much bullshit...

kc
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