box1: pacman -Qet | awk '{print $1}' >> INSTALLED box 2: (first copy files from /var/cache/pacman/pkg in box1 to box2 and also INSTALLED file) pacman -S $(cat installed) On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
Listmates:
If I want to clone my package selection to another box, is there a better way to do it other than just parsing the files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg to generate a list to feed to pacman after install on the second box? Something like:
for i in $(find /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ -type f); do TMP=${i##*/} FILE=${TMP%%-[[:digit:]]*} echo $FILE >> ~/linux/INSTALLED done
Then after install on the new box:
pacman --sync --refresh
pacman --sync $( < ~/linux/INSTALLED)
--or--
while read file; do pacman --sync $file done < ~/linux/INSTALLED
I've picked around a bit and can't find a pacman option that is somewhat the equivalent to rsync's '--files-from' that would allow me to read the list to pass to pacman directly from a file. I don't know if pacman can do something like this or how many files it can handle at once if the list of files is piped or redirected to it. I don't think the second while loop would work either from a dependency perspective, and, the repeated calls to pacman would make it slow as hell.
What's the current thinking on the best way to do something like this?
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