moving fedora to a new system

[William Hooper]

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.

I'd think it would be much easier to look at the RPM database instead. 
Look at /etc/cron.daily/rpm for an example RPM query and /var/log/rpmpkgs
for and example the output.

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William Hooper