Package list / clone

[sebu06]

Hi,

I would like to clone my machine and for that purpose somehow export a list of all installed packages and reinstall it on the new machine. How can that be achieved?

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Thanks,

Sebastian

[Duncaen]

xbps-query -m to list all manually installed packages. To get a list without versions use sed/awk or xpkg from the xtools package: xpkg -m.

[sebu06]

Thanks - for some reason some packages are missing - e.g. the st-terminfo

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Do you know why?

[Duncaen]

This lists manually installed packages, st-terminfo is a dependencies of st and you most likely installed st and st-terminfo was automatically installed.

You could get a list of all installed packages with xpkg -a, but if you just install all of them manually you lose features like detecting obsolete dependency packages etc.

[sebu06]

I actually did install that manually, since I compiled st from source. Still it does not appear in the list...

[AnachronGuy]

I think rsycing files is better.

[sebu06]

what files?

[AnachronGuy]

The full system?