On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:12:53 +1000 richard terry <rterry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. of course. if you want to know the recommended commandline flags: this comes up on the wiki/forums frequently. In fact, part of my personal backup system is keeping a package list in svn instead of the actual files. (along with /etc and /home in version control, a generated list of installed ruby gems, etc etc), and i have a config file for aif which can reconstruct the entire system by bringing all parts together again in a smart way (I've blogged about this a few times as well, but it's still a work in progress for me) Dieter
