On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:12:53 +1000 richard terry <rterry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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)`
