On 18 May 2016 17:57, "Frank Cox" <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 May 2016 09:30:54 +0100 > James Hogarth wrote: > > > And of course as will be pointed out by many the only right answer is yum > > update anyway given cherry picking updates is not supported. > > The objective is not to cherry pick updates, but rather to install a second system with packages that match the first system. After fine-tuning the installed packages and stripping out the unnecessary stuff, it would be nice to just say "make that system look like this one" -- rsync for yum if you will. The specific package versions aren't important at that stage since I can run yum update after the initial installation. > Well if you're planning on doing a yum update anyway just cat rpmlist | xargs yum -y install Better solution to this though is a basic ansible task list defining what you need. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos