On Wednesday 26 August 2009 03:19:30 am Nathan K. Bathory wrote: > > > > 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 > To save the download time, if the machines are the same architecture: > `pacman -Qq > pkg.list` > then on the other machine (as root) rsync -uav username@oldmachine:/var/cache/pacman/pkg /var/cache/pacman > `sudo pacman -S $(cat pkg.list)` > If you rsync (or scp or move with a usb stick) the package files from the oldmachine to the newmachine before issuing the "sudo pacman -S $(cat pkg.list)`, then the install uses the local files and avoid the time required to download them. You can easily do a 10 minute install that way. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
