Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:35:16 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: python script to backup installed packages Message-ID: <6201873e1002111835p7836d8e0xd35c7765c6069f1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87d40btvqp.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <6201873e1002110815l312da12fr5388956f32465516@mail.gmail.com> <87d40btvqp.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr > wrote: > My own version groks an os.environ['EXTRA_PKG_CREATE_ARGS'] option too > and inserts the extra options before the ["-b", "package"] arguments of > pkg_create, so that I can run the script for example with: > > env EXTRA_PKG_CREATE_ARGS='-Rvn' ./savepkg.py > > This way package dependencies are saved too (-R option), the output of > the `pkg_create -b' command is slightly more verbose, and saving the > same package multiple times doesn't overwrite existing packages of the > same version (-n option). > > Thanks for the tips, I may add some of your functionality to my own. I think I might add a couple more features like accepting a backup path from the command line and an auto create for the dir if it doesn't exist. One other thing that might be useful is for it to automatically create an install script for the backed up packages which takes into account dependencies. Almost have a package management system like some other unnamed OS's then. ;) -- Adam Vande More
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