Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:04:17 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Wolfgang Lausenbart <wmiuser@m-net.arbornet.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cloning installed packages? Message-ID: <20050830170417.GB97419@ratchet.nebcorp.com> In-Reply-To: <20050829055327.A46991@m-net.arbornet.org> References: <20050829055327.A46991@m-net.arbornet.org>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:53:27AM -0400, Wolfgang Lausenbart wrote: > I want to setup a FreeBSD 5.4 Server, which should have all > packages, as an older 4.11 based Server. What is the best > way of providing the same packages to as installed on the > 4.11 based? Note that it must not be *exactly* the same :o) > > Is there any option to sysinstall/pkg_* to import a list > of packages? > > Well, the ports collection might then be cvsupd'd... Wolfgang, How about: pkg_info -oa | grep / You can feed that to portinstall, or such: pkg_info -oa | grep / > manifest.txt <... copy manifest.txt to your new system ...> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade && make install && rehash portinstall -p `cat manifest.txt` Cheers, -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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