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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Fresh FTP install using 'pkglist' from pacman AND? yaourt - TIPS?

LATEST UPDATE EDIT:  most all I need seems to be here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cat … _(English)

I am starting to work with:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … repository

I hope to find out how to get all my pacman AND yaourt packages lined up for this proceedure OR something else that I find out: tips could be useful. Thanks!

OBJECTIVE: fresh base FTP install and then get all my packages reinstalled for both pacman and perhaps yaourt  also > using pkglists.
Another thought was to SAVE to DVD all the packages in my pacman cache then point pacman to it. Though what about the yaourt cache?
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Hi... got a tip from fukawi2 in this thread (and some other helpful comments from others, and 'B'):
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=72768

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
for PKG in `ls *.pkg.tar.gz` ; do
   pacman -Ud $PKG
done

I would like to do something like this: [i use pacman and AUR via yaourt - though maybe I should install AUR pkgs differently, manually]

1) I save the pkglist for the pacman install programs by exporting saving the list with this pacman command:

pacman -Qqe | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)" > pkglist

2) Somehow I save a package list of the yaourt assisted stuff I installed. Should I?  for for the 15 or so apps I install via yaourt maybe I should just do it manually? Haven't managed to figure out what to do to save a pkglist for the yaourt apps yet.

3) After doing a base/base-devel FTP install of ARCH I then do what the wiki says for pacman with the command:

pacman -S $(cat pkglist)

4) Now what do I do for the yaourt stuff? AND: how can I avoid having problems due to my inexperience at this.

I am hoping that it will be way easier to do something like the above than installing all my packages to get a fresh system. I have a very minimalistic system though I do have virtualbox_bin, scribus and a LOT or little apps.
I will of course have a backup done before I try any of this.

I'd love to try this soon so maybe I can get a guru comment or two?

thank you.

Last edited by yvonney (2009-06-11 02:55:36)