[arch-general] arch-release

[Nathan K. Bathory]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:12:53 +1000
richard terry <rterry at pacific.net.au> wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:04:42 Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:56:13 +0200
> >
> > Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 17:45 +1000, richard terry wrote:
> > > > /etc/arch-release
> > > >
> > > > Anyone know what is meant to be in this file
> > > >
> > > > The guys on the gambas user list are writing some sort of
> > > > script so users can identify details of their system  in case
> > > > of bugs etc, and i was asked if this file exists, which is
> > > > does, but it is empty?
> > > >
> > > > ?any other unique arch identifiers.
> > >
> > > As Arch is a rolling release system, we decided to remove the
> > > file. But as tools use this file to identify Arch systems, we
> > > decided to keep the file, but make it empty.
> >
> > maybe we should delete it.
> > Did you mean 'identifying whether a system is arch linux' (which
> > seems pretty pointless, you know when a system is arch linux) OR do
> > you mean 'identify which "version" an arch system is' ? Assuming
> > the latter, a better "system identification" would be something
> > like `pacman -Q`
> >
> > Dieter
> 
> Thanks for the replies, me I didn't mean anything, they just asked me
> what was in the file.
> 
> pacman -Q obviously not the answer, but whilst on that  - is it
> possible to do a pacman -Q, save the output somewhere, then on
> another machine, just reverse the process? Would save me heaps of
> time putting a system back together as happened last week when i had
> to replace my HDD, taken me ages to 'remember' everything I had on it.
> 
> 
> Richard

`pacman -Qq > pkg.list`
then on the other machine
`sudo pacman -S $(cat pkg.list)`