On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:17:25PM -0400, Frank Griffin wrote:
> The current install gives you a way to save your package selections to a
> floppy which can then be used in later installs to avoid having to
> manually re-select everything.
>
> Is there any way to generate such a floppy from a running system ? In
> other words, once I get a particular cooker "stocked" with various
> packages added over time (many post-install), can I create a floppy that
> can be fed to another install which will select all of the packages in
> the first system, whether they were selected during installation or
> after installation ?
Not really. However you could do:
rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' > package.list
Then run urpmi for each package name after the install:
for package in `cat package.list`; do
urpmi "$package"
done
You'll have some that won't exist anymore (libraries for example with
changing major names). But it ought to work for anything else.
Can't say I've done this myself...
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