Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:09:57 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to new PC Message-ID: <200609171109.57798.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060917133514.59120.qmail@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:35, White Hat wrote: > I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near > future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was > therefore wondering if the following scenario was > possible. > > 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system > 2) Untar the collection into the same location on new > PC > 3) Run portsnap to get an up-to-date ports collection > 4) Run portmanager to actually install the ports. > > I have close to 500 entries in the directory and > trying to install them all manually is a lot of work. > Of course there are META packages like KDE, but still > I would have a lot of manual work involved to get it > all back to the same state I had it in on the old PC. > It would seem to me that by doing it in this fashion > all of the programs would be built correctly for the > new system which is going to be quite a bit different > than the one I have now. > > In theory this seems to work, but I wanted to know if > it is actually possible before attempting it. sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, ill supply the test computer, and post the results. cheers, jonathanhome | help
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