Re: Feature request ... or How to.
James Antill <[email protected]>
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Dave Pawson <[email protected]> writes: > Scenario. > Fedora 13 is about to hit the streets. > My goal this time is to change to the 64bit version, hence I need a > clean install. > I have lots of extra software installed. Mainly through yum some via rpm's. > > How can I obtain a list of programs installed since time X, in this case > since my OS was last installed? Is that possible please? > > The objective being to give yum the job of install 'this long list of programs' > once the new OS is installed and running. > > Any suggestions please? > > Could I take a snapshot as a baseline when I first install FCX. > Then compare with the list of what is currently installed? What I'd do is: 1. yum-debug-dump (current-i386 system) 2. reinstall 3. yum-debug-restore --ignore-arch <file-from-above> ...of course if you don't want to do #2, that doesn't really work (and I don't know any _good_ options). -- James Antill -- [email protected] James Antill -- [email protected] http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/releases http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/whatsnew/3.2.28 http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumMultipleMachineCaching