[arch-general] Best way to clone install (package selection to another box?)

[Juan Diego]

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 at 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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