[solved] gentoo-like "world" package list in Arch

paziul · 2011-12-07 20:06:33

There is situations where users load a larger amount of packages on the system, and are in need to either reinstall, change the architecture ( from x86 to x86_64 ) or simply "clone" the system..
Does pacman maintain such file and if yes, is it possible to re-use it to do pacman -Syu on a minimal arch installation to install all missing packages and their dependencies?
If I need to reinstall/upgrade/clone etc. a gentoo system I am usually moving the world file, customizing it and starting a 1-2 day compile / fix process

Last edited by paziul (2011-12-08 13:13:52)

bohoomil · 2011-12-07 20:59:14

Maybe this is the answer?

paziul · 2011-12-07 21:21:51

thank you bohoomil, this is what I was looking for.... I will test it soon....

I found one thing a bit "funny" ( on the pacman tips wilki page ) - if there is a "foreign" package, pacman will need some goood steroids to complete the install process:

 pacman -S --needed $(diff <(cat badpkglist|sort) <(diff <(cat badpkglist|sort) <(pacman -Slq|sort)|grep \<|cut -f2 -d' ')|grep \<|cut -f2 -d' ')

on a "clean" gentoo emerge world did the trick

Anyway, This is what I was looking for - Thank you bohoomil!

ewaller · 2011-12-08 06:29:04

paziul wrote:

on a "clean" gentoo emerge world did the trick

... Tempus fugit ...

Edit: Oh, welcome to Arch !!

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#1 2011-12-07 20:06:33

[solved] gentoo-like "world" package list in Arch

#2 2011-12-07 20:59:14

Re: [solved] gentoo-like "world" package list in Arch

#3 2011-12-07 21:21:51

Re: [solved] gentoo-like "world" package list in Arch

#4 2011-12-08 06:29:04

Re: [solved] gentoo-like "world" package list in Arch

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