I'm using SUSE 10.2 and trying to set up multiple workstations with the same set of packages. I'm looking for a way to somehow take a list of installed packages in yast and use that list to install packages on another system. Basically the equivalent of dpkg --set-selections and dpkg --get-selections in debian. Anybody have any ideas?

I've never used it, but suse provides an auto-yast function that will duplicate everything after an install, ie all packages, as well as other system configuration options. At the very end of the install, on the screen that basically says done, there is a button that says "duplicate this server with autoyast".

Here's a link that mentions it, 2nd to last paragraph:

http://madpenguin.org/cms/index.php/...id=7150&page=2

Autoyast would be good, except these aren't duplicate computers with duplicate hardware. We have multiple hardware configurations, and multiple partition layouts. I will admit I have basically no experience with autoyast, but it seems that I'd have to make at least three autoyast profiles to cover all the configurations I need. The common thread between these computers is the software installed from the 10.2 repos, so I really could use just a way to duplicate those package selections after I've already installed. If there isn't a good way to do that I'll probably stick with using a list of changes from the default configuration that I have written down.

Example 4.13 reads in the /etc/fstab file and mounts the partitions instead of reformatting:
/usr/share/doc/packages/autoyast2/autoyast.pdf

http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/Ima...g_autoyast.pdf