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. 1. 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. 2. 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. -- ======================================================================= Disobedience: The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. -- Ambrose Bierce ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
