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milky

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Registered: 2016-08-16

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SOLVED :: Generating package lists for archiso

Hi!

Long time arch user, first time poster.
I'm working on a custom arch install which i intend to be a mirror of my desktop.
I know how to build the arch iso and bundle applications and config files and stuff, but I was wondering, is there an easy way to just generate the packages.both, packages.i686, and packages.x86_64 files based on what is installed on my box presently?
It's just too hard to keep of every single package I install to solve every little problem I run into, I'm not organized like that.
I just want to have a list of package names that pacman needs to install a system that's identical to this box.

I'm not concerned about stuff from the AUR, I already set up a local repo for those so I know what they all are.

Any help is appreciated, I'm having a hard time finding concise information on google or pacman's manual :(

Thanks !!

Last edited by milky (2016-08-27 16:30:05)

FlowIt

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Registered: 2014-10-25

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Re: SOLVED :: Generating package lists for archiso

If I understand you correctly, pacman -Qq should do what you want.

ajbibb

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Registered: 2012-02-12

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Re: SOLVED :: Generating package lists for archiso

From the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … repository)

List explicitely installed packages not in the base or base-devel groups:

comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq | sort) <(pacman -Qgq base base-devel | sort)

Should be easy enough to pipe that into a file, or modify the groups you want excluded or listed.

milky

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Registered: 2016-08-16

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Re: SOLVED :: Generating package lists for archiso

From the Arch Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … repository)

List explicitely installed packages not in the base or base-devel groups:

comm -23 <(pacman -Qeq | sort) <(pacman -Qgq base base-devel | sort)

Should be easy enough to pipe that into a file, or modify the groups you want excluded or listed.

Hi sorry for not replying for a while, thanks very much, this is exactly what i needed im still really new to doing this kind of stuff in bash.
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Re: SOLVED :: Generating package lists for archiso

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