clone

[Patrick Dupre]

Thank for the advice.
>
> I had a similar situation where the user had enriched his machine with many packages, not all of which were available from the Fedora repositories. I am assuming that the software you enriched the machine with were all rpm's or built from sources that you still have.
>
> So, this is what was done. It is tedious and a little time consuming, but it does the job.
>
> After you install your new machine with  your chosen Fedora release/Architecture,
> copy from your original machine the output of rpm -qa to a file on the new machine.
> On the new machine, massage this file as follows:
>
> sed 's/-[0-9].*$//'  list-of-installed-rpms-file  > newlist
>
> allpkgs=""
> for pkg in `cat newlist`; do
> allpkgs="$allpkgs + $pkg"
> done
>
> This list could be huge, so you might not be able specify this list as an argument to yum (Shell has a limited buffer for command line args). So, you do this
>
> echo $allpkgs | sudo xargs yum install
>
> Some packages may already be installed. No problem there.
> Some packages might not exist in the new release you have installed on the new machine.
> Be sure that you have installed same repo files on new machine as you had on old machine.
> Also, be sure that these repo files do not explicitly specify the release version and the architecture.
> If they do, throw them out or change every occurrence of the explicit release to
> $releasever , and every explicit architecture to $basearch
> These repos might or might still not have the packages for your new Fedora  installation.
> In such cases, you will have to resort to the web to find them.
>
> As far as the packages that were built and installed from sources on your original machine, you
> will have to copy the sources to the new machine, and re-configure, rebuild  and install.
>
> Good luck,
>
> MK
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:30:39 +0100
>> From: pd520 at york.ac.uk
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: clone
>>
>> Thank for your email.
>>
>> THis is not what I want. I have a machine installed 6 months ago,
>> which has then been enriched by a lot of packages. Now I would like to
>> clone the installation. typically I want to pass from i386 to x86_64 and
>> from FC10 to FC11 expecting to get a similar machine.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> If I understand correctly, anaconda and kickstart let install a
>>>> machine identically to a previous machine installed with anaconda.
>>>> If the machine has been upgraded by all sort of packages, then the use
>>>> of anaconda is obsolete. Am I correct ? Is there a way to
>>>> rebuild a file which could be used on the 2nd machine, either which
>>>> anaconda or with yum or something else ?
>>>
>>> Anaconda is the installation program used by RH/Fedora for the initial
>>> install.
>>>
>>> If you've updated the packages on your source machine, you have a couple
>>> of options:
>>>
>>> A) Run "yum update" on the newly built system(s) after the kickstart build
>>> has finished.
>>>
>>> B) Download the updated packages to your source/install repository, and
>>> let them be installed by the kickstart build process.  If you look at your
>>> kickstart file, you'll note that there are no versions listed...only
>>> package and/or package group names.  As long as all the appropriate
>>> packages are there to satisfy prereq/dependencies, you should be fine.
>>>
>>>
>>
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>>   Patrick DUPRÉ                      |   |
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  Patrick DUPRÉ                      |   |
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  Heslington                         |   |
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