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#1 2015-02-12 11:28:48
- parazyd
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Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
I would like to reinstall my entire system, but my Internet connection was tough to configure the first time I was installing it.
What I would like now is to use my /var/cache/ as a repository(?) for pacstrap.
Is it possible?
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#2 2015-02-12 11:59:48
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
Do you have your /var on a separate partition?
You could just mount the cache on your live system then use pacstrap.
EDIT: Or if you have a LAN you could copy that cache folder to another machine and run it through a webserver (like darkhttp). Then add it to the mirrorlist on the installing machine.
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#4 2015-02-12 12:11:52
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
Without an internet connection you would also need to copy over the pacman database files for the repositories.
Pacstrap is just a wrapper around pacman. It passes through pacman arguments like --cachedir.
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#5 2015-02-12 12:23:11
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
Do you want to install do a different drive (or do you need to reformat/repartition the current one), or are you just trying to fix problems in many packages by getting back to installaed-defaults? There could be very different approaches depdencing on your goal.
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#6 2015-02-12 19:41:12
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
How do I use pacstrap with local files? I haven't found any documentation online.
# pacstrap -c <package names>See `pacstrap --help`
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#7 2015-02-12 21:04:44
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
You could just use pacman more like rpm and pacman -U all the packages you need. Cd to /var/cache/pacman/pkg point pacman to your installation with -r.
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#8 2015-02-12 21:08:34
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
I would like to reinstall my entire system
Why?
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#9 2015-02-13 01:01:47
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
Do you want to install do a different drive (or do you need to reformat/repartition the current one), or are you just trying to fix problems in many packages by getting back to installaed-defaults? There could be very different approaches depdencing on your goal.
A reinstall. Like a from-scratch start. I'd like to achieve a system with less bugs than what I have now. And clean it entirely in the process.
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#10 2015-02-13 01:02:17
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#11 2015-02-13 01:13:35
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
The cache can also have packages which were uninstalled in the past; either by you or by deprecation. It will also have have older versions of packages. I would instead get a list of installed packages from pacman. If you can't get it from pacman, there is a tool paclog-pkglist which can extract a list of installed packages from the pacman log. Then I would copy the cache to the new system to avoid redownloading everything. I think pacstrap will use the cache dir on the target system so copy the files there.
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#12 2015-02-13 01:15:20
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
pacman -Qs would do the same.
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#13 2015-02-13 01:45:53
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Re: Reinstalling system using cached packages in /var
I would like to reinstall my entire system, but my Internet connection was tough to configure the first time I was installing it.
You can copy your network configuration and the necessary packages, then use pacman -U in your installation environment and connect with the copy of your configuration.
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