On 11/17/2009 02:58 PM, Colin Brace wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am currently running 32-bit F11 on a 64-bit system. With this upgrade I'd > like to upgrade to 64-bit F12. I am assuming the best if not only way to do > this is by a fresh install. To expedite things, I was wondering if there was > a way of exporting from rpm a list of the current installed packages, then > reinstalling them from that list in the new system. I once read somewhere > instructions how to do that with apt. > > Something like this on the command line: > > $ rpm -qa | cut -d"." -f1 | cut -d"-" -f1 > > could be piped to a file. Is there a way of feeding it back in again? I > don't see anything obvious on the man page under the install options. Have you tried using a x86_64 install DVD and going the "upgrade" route with it (rather than the "install" route)? I essentially did this from F6.i686 to F9.x86_64. I had lots to clean up when I was done, but it essentially worked. You might have to change the following file by hand first: /etc/rpm/platform so that it contains the one line: x86_64-redhat-linix You might also want to change to this line in /etc/yum.conf exactarch=0 If you do that, I think that you could then use "yum upgrade" to do the upgrade and it would switch package architectures for you. > Thanks. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
