You should consider using kickstart for this type of thing under redhat. 2008/12/2 Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Michael Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Cheng Renquan wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Michael Clark < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> How do I do this with yum? > >> > >> How about this? > >> > >> machine a: > >> rpm -qa > package.list > >> > >> machine b: > >> yum install $(<package.list) > >> > > > > [...] I thought of initially but my worry was that the output from rpm > -qa > > includes the fully qualified package name and version so if the exact > > version is not in the repository it might not work (e.g. machine A has > not > > been updated or is on a different minor release which is the case for > me). > > Perhaps yum recognizes this and fetch the latest version anyway? [...] > > I thought of that method too but my concern will be that `yum install > ...` will install all the packages, but not necessarily removed any > packages that are not specified in package.list. Does that matter for > your use? (I might be making wrong assumptions, based on my limited > usage of yum.) > > > -- > Chris > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Slugnet mailing list > [email protected] > http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet >
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