Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:57:54 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to new PC Message-ID: <200609182157.55945.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20060917133514.59120.qmail@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060917133514.59120.qmail@web34407.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:35, 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.
Most of those 500 entries will be installed as a side effect, of a much
smaller number of leaf-ports (around 10% in my case). You've probably already
done your move, but for future reference, or in case you run into problems, I
would suggest this:
1. Run "portmanager -slid" to remove any unwanted leaf-ports (probably all the
ones you dont remember installing)
2. run the following (which may take several minutes) to generate a list of
the remaining leaves:
portmanager -sl |awk '{ print $2 }' |egrep "^/[^/[:space:]]+/" > leafports
3 copy the leafports file to the new machine and run something like:
cat leafports | xargs portmanager
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