I'd be interested to see that list, Steven. Any chance of sharing it? Steven A. DuChene wrote: > The original system is a VERY minimal install and that is what > the owner wants me to mimic on the second system. He very carefully > went through and removed any packages he did not absolutely need > so rather than duplicate that work I thought I could somehow just > work from his list of rpms on the original system. > > -----Original Message----- >> From: R P Herrold >> Sent: Nov 23, 2009 2:54 PM >> To: "Steven A. DuChene" , Main PLUG discussion list >> Subject: loading fresh system from rpm list? >> >> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Steven A. DuChene wrote: >> >>> I have been requested to load a duplicate system based on the >>> list of rpms present on the original system. This is a CentOS >>> Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to do a fresh >>> load of a bare system based on a list of desired rpms? >> master: >> rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | grep -v kernel | sort | \ >> uniq > /tmp/rpmlist.txt >> >> clone: >> do a minimal install >> >> scp master:/tmp/rpmlist.txt . >> >> yum install rpmlist.txt >> >> Then on the clone, run: >> rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | grep -v kernel | sort | \ >> uniq > /tmp/rpmlist.txt >> >> diff -u rpmlist.txt /tmp/rpmlist.txt >> >> and >> rpm -e any strays present on the clone, >> >> and note anything not present, and repair to taste [this can >> happen over time as the items in a point respin change, or if >> a non-CentOS archive is used] >> >> - Russ herrold > > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss