On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 09:44 AM, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> I upgraded my G3 iMac and just copied over /sw from my powerbook. I
> ran a resinstall of xfree86 and everything seems to work equally well
> on both machines. So that at least was simple.
>
> I was unable to figure out a good way to simply capture my install to
> CDs. I realized what would be very handy was a truly (sanely)
> compressed version that could be used for a binary install. I have a
> decent broadband connection, but I know some people who don't. Has
> anyone thought of a decent way to package up all of fink for
> distribution this way.
>
I found the most convenient way of sharing a fink installation or
backing it up on CD, and still getting a clean install of the software,
is to do a 'fink scanpackages' and just copy the whole content of
/sw/fink/dists (you can omit the "finkinfo" directories, but that's
insignificant in terms of storage space) over to the CD (or export it
over NFS, AFP or whatever). You then just need to point your
/sw/etc/apt/sources.list to that archive and can do a binary
installation of all the packages. The .deb files are also fairly
compact (effectively, the contents are compressed about as well as with
tar.gz), so you can get a fairly complete distribution on one CD (I
don"t have a lot of KDE stuff installed here, if you add that you'd
probably need a second disk).
To get a list of the packages that are actually installed on the
original system,
"dpkg --get-selections" is quite useful, too.
HTH,
Derek
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