akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:25:51PM -0500, Jaime Davila wrote:
Hello all,
I've been using fedora for a while in my personal laptop. I am about to get a new laptop, and would like to end up with a system as close to the one I have as possible in terms of the packages that are installed in it. Everything I have installed so far I have installed via yum. Is there a way of making yum output what it knows is installed (in my current system), and then feed that to yum in my new system?
Thanks in advance,
Jaime
I really haven't thought about this a lot but two observations might be made.
- If you never ran a yum clean then all the rpms you installed
through yum will be in the directories: /var/cache/yum/<repository name>/packages. So that takes care of the names of the rpms installed.
- However to install them on the new machine you would have to write
a script that would I think( I am not sure about this) remove the tail part of the rpm name (such as the .lvn.1.4.i386.rpm part of the rpm mplayerplug-in-2.80-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm. Then you would have to feed them to yum -y update in small enough glops as to not exceed the 256 character limit on a execution line.
That is the way it seems to me but maybe I am all wet and someone will correct me or find a better way to do this.
based on your step #2, couldn't he just do a "yum install *.rpm" in the directory which contained all the rpms?