On Jan 17, 2006, at 06:44, Martin White wrote:
Is it possible to burn my entire /sw directory tree to a DVD, send
it to a
friend and have him use that as a start point rather than going
through
the whole 1.8GB of download, compile, install etc.?
I use tar as my backup method. Below is a copy of shell files. You
could place the applicable file on a dvd. Remember that new installs
will require you to reinstall "passwd" and "daemonic" because the
have effect outside fink.
..lj
____________________cat bin/swback
#!/bin/sh
fink scanpackages
fink cleanup
fink list -i --tab > ~/back/swList.txt
cd /sw
tar cvfz - . > ~/back/sw.tgz
____________________cat bin/swrestore.sh
#!/bin/sh
cd /sw
#restore
sudo tar xvfz ~/back/sw.tgz
fink cleanup
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