On 22 Nov 2002 11:33:02 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 01:32, Donna and Matthew Persico wrote:
>>
>>Turns out that after I wrote, I found the AutoInst disk I made
>>about
>>two installs ago. Imagine my surprise when I opened it up and
>>discovered that it is nothing more than a PERL SCRIPT!!!! It's just
>>an
>>array of rpms in no discernible order. Soooooo, I simply did
>>
>> rpm -qa | perl -ane '$F[0]=~s/-[0-9].*//;print "$F[0]\n" | sort -u
>>>
>foobar
>>
>>and then slapped the whole mess into the auto_inst.cfg file, taking
>>care to remove the few rpms that were not on the installation disk.
>>
>>Touchdown, ballgame over. Well, not quite. After I did that, I took
>>the machine apart and started transplanting the pieces into the
>>newer
>>machine only to discover that the old machine had an AGP1 video
>>card
>>and the new machine is an AGP2/4. So, the port is on hold until I
>>can
>>buy a new video card tomorrow.
>>
>>Thanks for your assistance.
>>
>>--
>>Matthew O. Persico
>
>You're welcome, and I appreciate greatly the command line above! It
>will be handy in future installs I am sure. :)
>
Well if you think THAT was handy, how about a version that spits out the correct perl
in one shot, no editing needed:
rpm -qa | perl -ane 'BEGIN{print "\$o = { \"default_packages\" => [\n";} END{print
"]};"}$F[0]=~s/-[0-9].*//;print "\"$F[0]\",\n"' > auto_inst.cfg
:-)
--
Matthew O. Persico
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