No, not identical.
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:50:49 -0300 "George N. White III" gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 17:35, Geoffrey Leach geoff@hughes.net wrote:
My internet service comes over a satellite, and with it a relatively small monthly download allowance. Which motivates the following question.
Once I have installed a new disto and downloaded the RPMs that I use, is there a procedure by which I could gather together everything that I have added, so that I could transfer the files (RPMs, or whatever) to a local system, without resorting to the internet? (Or, at least, to a significant amount!)
Is the "local system" identical to the one where you did the initial installation?
In a former life, with RHEL versions 4--6, I used a local mirror for the packages needed to support our use cases. When there were updates, they appeared in the mirror and systems updated from there. I don't recall there being a lot of guidance for creating a local mirror, more a matter of trial and error to get a local mirror working with a small get of packages.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/MockSetupUsingLocalMirror seems to be roughly the same vintage. The example uses a .xml list of packages which you could adjust to what is needed at your site.
I also had a mirror for Ubuntu. I recall using rsync excludes in a mirror script, but that may have been used for Ubuntu.
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George N. White III