duplicate install via equo for new HD or machine? [Solved]

[anomaly65]

Hi all,

Was wondering if there is a sane way to copy a previous install (e.g. I don't want a disk copy due to problems or whatever in previous install; just want the same set of apps/etc installed via equo on a fresh install).

such as "equo install --from myoldlist.txt"

After 3-4 major releases, or setting up a new machine on new hardware, would be nice to do so.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
andy

[joost]

I'd do something like this:

To collect what your old install has now:

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equo query installed --quiet > my_list.txt

Then on your new installed and updated system:

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equo install $(cat my_list.txt) --ask

[BHReach]

I'd do something like this:

To collect what your old install has now:

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equo query installed --quiet > my_list.txt

Then on your new installed and updated system:

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equo install $(cat my_list.txt) --ask

That will reinstall the packages that Sabayon just installed. See my next post for a solution that avoids reinstalling those.

[BHReach]

Yes it is possible but unless you kept track of everything you installed (always keep good notes on all changes you make to your base installation), it will require some work on your part.

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cat /var/log/entropy/entropy.log |grep -i 'installing package' >installedPackagesByDate.txt

The above command extracts all, packages installed from the entropy log and saves them to a file.

Open the file and notice at the top of the file is a large number of packages installed very close together in time. These are the packages that the Sabayon installer installed.

Delete all those lines from the file and save it.

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cat installedPackagesByDate.txt |cut -d: -f 5 |sed -e "s/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/" |sort -u |tr '\n' ' ' >packagesFormatted4Equo.txt

The above command will extract the package names and save them in a file in a form that equo can use.

Save that file on a flash drive, install the latest version of Sabayon. Copy the file from the flash drive and run:

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equo install --ask `cat packagesFormatted4Equo.txt`

That command will install the packages you added. There may be a few errors reported due to packages you installed that are no longer available or some unconventionally named packages that my sed regex didn't extract correctly but 99% should work OK.

Also to avoid downloading all the packages again, run:

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tar cvf packages.tar /var/lib/entropy/client/packages/packages/amd64/5/

This will tar all the packages you already downloaded. Save packages.tar to a flash drive then copy it back and untar to the correct directory before running the equo install command.

[anomaly65]

WOW, brilliant. thanks so very much!