moving fedora to a new system

[Anthony Messina]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:25:51PM -0500, Jaime Davila wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I've been using fedora for a while in my personal laptop. I am about to 
>>get a new laptop, and would like to end up with a system as close to the 
>>one I have as possible in terms of the packages that are installed in 
>>it. Everything I have installed so far I have installed via yum. Is 
>>there a way of making yum output what it knows is installed (in my 
>>current system), and then feed that to yum in my new system?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Jaime
> 
> I really haven't thought about this a lot but two observations might
> be made. 
> 1. If you never ran a yum clean then all the rpms you installed
> through yum will be in the directories:
> /var/cache/yum/<repository name>/packages. So that takes care of the
> names of the rpms installed.
> 
> 2. However to install them on the new machine you would have to write
> a script that would I think( I am not sure about this) remove the tail
> part of the rpm name (such as the .lvn.1.4.i386.rpm part of the rpm
>  mplayerplug-in-2.80-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm. Then you would have to feed
>  them to yum -y update in small enough glops as to not exceed the 256
>  character limit on a execution line.
> 
>  That is the way it seems to me but maybe I am  all wet and someone
>  will correct me or find a better way to do this.

based on your step #2, couldn't he just do a "yum install *.rpm" in the 
directory which contained all the rpms?

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