On 05/18/2016 12:32 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:54:51AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: >> Given a list of rpms on one system (rpm -qa > list.txt), is there a >> one-shot command that I can run on another system to remove all of >> the rpms not listed and add any that are on the list and not present >> on the second system? > > I think you can pull this off with `yum shell`. First, though, don't do > `rpm -qa` as your list — do `rpm -qa --qf '%{name}.%{arch}\n'|sort` instead. > That way, version numbers won't complicate things. Right .. if you are not at the same update levels then name.arch is better than full versions. > > And then, on the second system (the one you want to change), try this > crazy oneliner: > > ( rpm -qa --qf '%{name}.%{arch}\n' | sort | diff --old-line-format='install %L' --new-line-format='remove %L' -unchanged-line-format='' list.txt - ; echo run ) | yum shell > > It's not really as bad as it looks — the diff formatting is just > verbose. The first command just gets the package list from the current > system; then we sort it, and then get the difference in a formatted as > a list of "install" and "remove" commands. Then add "run" to the end, > and pipe all of that to yum shell. > > This is totally untested but I'll give it good odds of working.
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