From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 17 16:10:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3172916A412 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:10:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96E4943D8A for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:10:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) Received: from athena.dfwlp.com (athena.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.83]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8HG9w8h025049 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:09:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:09:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20060917133514.59120.qmail@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060917133514.59120.qmail@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609171109.57798.freebsd@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.5 (2006-08-29) on zeus.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: Moving to new PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:10:24 -0000 On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:35, White Hat wrote: > I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near > future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was > therefore wondering if the following scenario was > possible. > > 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system > 2) Untar the collection into the same location on new > PC > 3) Run portsnap to get an up-to-date ports collection > 4) Run portmanager to actually install the ports. > > I have close to 500 entries in the directory and > trying to install them all manually is a lot of work. > Of course there are META packages like KDE, but still > I would have a lot of manual work involved to get it > all back to the same state I had it in on the old PC. > It would seem to me that by doing it in this fashion > all of the programs would be built correctly for the > new system which is going to be quite a bit different > than the one I have now. > > In theory this seems to work, but I wanted to know if > it is actually possible before attempting it. sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, ill supply the test computer, and post the results. cheers, jonathan