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On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 01:26:27PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>On 9/9/2011 7:52 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> Here's what mine looks like:
>>
>> setup.exe ^
>> --no-shortcuts ^
>> --quiet-mode ^
>> --disable-buggy-antivirus ^
>> --packages ^
>> aria2,^
>> atool,^
>> autoconf,^
>> automake,^
>> autossh,^
>
>Step 2: A script that can write out such a script to clone an existing 
>installation.  Just translate the contents of /etc/setup/installed.db to 
>the form --packages wants.

>Step 3: Modify the script to find the last-used setup.ini (registry?), 
>put the packages there into a dependency graph, then compute the minimum 
>set of packages needed to clone the installation.

I was thinking about that too.  Don't you get into potential trouble
when dealing with packages whose name also reflects their version
like libncurses?

>No, I am not volunteering. :)

I might volunteer.  This has come up often enough that it seems like
it would be a useful thing to have.

cgf

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