[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.

[James Antill]

Dave Pawson <dave.pawson at gmail.com> writes:

> Scenario.
>   Fedora 13 is about to hit the streets.
> My goal this time is to change to the 64bit version, hence I need a
> clean install.
> I have lots of extra software installed. Mainly through yum some via rpm's.
>
> How can I obtain a list of programs installed since time X, in this case
> since my OS was last installed? Is that possible please?
>
> The objective being to give yum the job of install 'this long list of programs'
> once the new OS is installed and running.
>
> Any suggestions please?
>
> Could I take a snapshot as a baseline when I first install FCX.
> Then compare with the list of what is currently installed?

 What I'd do is:

1. yum-debug-dump (current-i386 system)

2. reinstall

3. yum-debug-restore --ignore-arch <file-from-above>

...of course if you don't want to do #2, that doesn't really work (and
I don't know any _good_ options).

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