Richard Hughes wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 01:23 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Even better than talking about it would be creating the exact package
lists that best enable a variety of use cases and a handy way of
telling yum/packagekit to duplicate them on your machine. Then anyone
else who needed to do the same thing would have a push-button choice.
The idea should be that anyone could 'publish' their installed package
set and describe why they think it is best for a particular use, and
anyone who was convinced by their description/reputation, etc. could
just clone that setup.
PackageKit already supports catalogs, which is pretty much what you
describe.
Have a look here http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#catalogs and tell
me if that does what you need.
That's the easy half of the job. What I want is a tool where someone
who has added 3rd party repositories, then added/removed any number of
packages from any source can push a button and have the catalog
generated that would reproduce that set of packages on any other machine
starting with the same base distro version. Someone setting out to
assemble the perfect set of tools for a job won't know if they've
succeeded until after they've tried a lot of the wrong ones, and after
they have their system working perfectly they probably won't start over
to build a catalog. I want something that will deduce what's there and
where it came from after the fact and does everything necessary to
reproduce it. Ideally, I'd also like it to give you a choice of
duplicating the exact versions of all the packages on the copy or
floating them all to the current update.
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