On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 03:40 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> sudo rsync -az -e ssh /sw othermachine:/
>
> There are some more caveats: Some packages need to run postinstall
> scripts. Some are installing stuff outside /sw (the xfree packages, of
> course; also g77; and anything that uses daemonic, most notably
> openssh). And if your /sw is not /sw but for example a symlink, the real
> path may be hardcoded somewhere if you are not careful. So you may
> expect some more or less subtle breakage. Nothing that can't be
> repaired, usually by a "fink reinstall" or else "fink rebuild", but be
> warned. I have done it twice, it's possible but maybe not completely
> painless.
>
An alternative were to install the base system and copy over the
/fink/dists tree from your existing installation, then fink should just
use your local .deb files for setting up the other packages.
Derek
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