akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx 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. 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. I'd think it would be much easier to look at the RPM database instead. Look at /etc/cron.daily/rpm for an example RPM query and /var/log/rpmpkgs for and example the output. -- William Hooper
