Can you use world as a mass installer?

Paradigmbreak · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 64

I am in the process of rebuilding a system and was curious whether you could populate /usr/cache/edb/world with all the packages you wanted and then run emerge world --emptytree? From reading the documentation it would seem you could, but I just wanted to confirm it before I leave my computer alone for a couple of days to get it done.

Thanks

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:02 am Post subject:

Yes, that would work. You don't need to use --emptytree unless you want it to also recompile packages that are already installed. "emerge world" should do the trick.

Paradigmbreak · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 64

I tried that but emerge spits back that none of the packages in world are installed and stops.

cyrillic · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 2:52 am Post subject:

How early in the installation are you trying to do this ?
I think you would need to be at least up to a stage3 installation before it would work.

EDIT: Try "emerge -u world" and see if it works better.

Paradigmbreak · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 64

I am already through my first reboot. emerge -up gets me nothing at all to be upgaded.

Perhaps i should just shoot the moon and go for it?

emerge -eu world here i come?

ben_h · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:01 am Post subject:

Just a bit of a brainstorm, but it might be better to put the names of the packages in a text file, then make a little bash script to emerge them all normally.

Paradigmbreak · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 64

Cool idea. The script is running.

Let you know in a day or so (thankfully it is a dual xeon).

Incidentally, i like this approach as it won't bother with all the system stuff (like portage).

Thanks.

Paradigmbreak · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 64

Almost forgot to followup. Works like a charm.

Thanks.