Hardware/software/OS upgrade: One approach?

[Robin Laing]

Don Levey wrote:
> I may end up doing just that.  I was hoping that there would be some way to
> instruct the system to reinstall everything listed in the database, but in
> the end that would probably be overkill.  THat list you suggest will at
> least point me toward what will need to be (re)configured, anyway.
> 
> Thanks!
>  -Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robin Laing
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Hardware/software/OS upgrade: One approach?
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> If I understand correctly, if you just move or convert that rpm
> database, you will have a database that says packages are installed
> when they aren't.
> 
> I would personally take the time to install the packages manually as
> your needs may have changed.
> 

As I was saying, if you had the list and after a basic install, you 
could pipe the list into yum and go from there.  You would have to 
strip the version info from the list.  For example, yum-2.4.1-1.fc4 
would have to be changed to just yum.

I don't know if it would work

   yum -y < list.txt