moving fedora to a new system

[Jaime Davila]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

> I really haven't thought about this a lot but two observations might
> be made. 
> 1. If you never ran a yum clean then all the rpms you installed
> through yum will be in the directories:
> /var/cache/yum/<repository name>/packages. So that takes care of the
> names of the rpms installed.

HMM. After running yum clean those directories are empty in my system.

> 
> 2. However to install them on the new machine you would have to write
> a script that would I think( I am not sure about this) remove the tail
> part of the rpm name (such as the .lvn.1.4.i386.rpm part of the rpm
>  mplayerplug-in-2.80-0.lvn.1.4.i386.rpm. Then you would have to feed
>  them to yum -y update in small enough glops as to not exceed the 256
>  character limit on a execution line.

Will those names follow a clear convention? That is, can I find a 
consistent delimiter between the package name and the package version? 
If there is, I can then write a script to do the installs.


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Jaime J. Davila
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