On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 03:03:51PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > so, what about restoring "packages" from this file... dnf install > <filename ? xargs < filename | dnf -y install except will automatically fail the whole thing if one of the files listed isn't available in the new distribution (retired or replaced or whatever). That might be okay - you can then update your list. Or, you can just do this: for pkg in $(<filename); do dnf -y install $pkg; done which will be somewhat slower and also introduce a number of no-ops since packages early in the list might pull in the later ones already by dependencies. As another refinement, you might want to generate your list from `dnf leaves` instead of `rpm -qa`. That lists only packages that aren't required by another installed package. That'll make the above somewhat faster and the list more manageable. Of course, if a package you actually want was pulled in as a dependency of something and _that_ leaf is retired in the future, you might miss something, but that should be rare enough that you can tune the list by hand. Personally, I actually view a reinstall as a chance to discard cruft I wasn't using anyway. It's pretty fast to install something that turns out to be missed on the fly later. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
