On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:23:14 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David C. Rankin 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? > > One option is to have the first box serve as an Arch package mirror > for the rest of the boxes. i.e., box #1's mirrorlist file points to > an external Arch mirror, box #'s 2 through n's mirrorlist files point > to box #1. > > It's perhaps slightly more complicated to implement, but not > onerously so, and probably more elegant than any other solution - > especially if there's multiple servers involved. > > I don't recall what you have to do to make an Arch mirror, but it's > not that complicated, IIRC. There's probably something on the Arch > wiki about it. make a directory, put packages in it, run repo-add (in the repo, not the client) that's it afaik. Dieter > > HTH, > > DR
