Re: [Cooker] How to dump current rpm db for install ?

[Frank Griffin]

Ben Reser wrote:

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...
 

I gave this a try "importing" rpm databases from various cooker systems 
to my current one, and it seems to work fine.  I did write some local 
code to compare the package.list to a reference one resulting from a 
vanilla install with all boxes checked and no individual packages 
selected, because invoking urpmi for all of the already-installed guys 
ate up considerable time, even on a fast machine.

Thanks !