Saving install config

JAKK · 01-23-2007, 04:32 PM

Hi. I just reinstalled slackware,but something is messed up with my apm. I've tried recompiling my kernel,but my laptop won't shut down all the way. With my old slackware install,everything worked fine. I've tried lots of recompilies,but nothing worked,so I'm thinking of reinstalling. However,I really don't want to go through the 'newbie' package selection a third time,it takes me about an hour and a half to do that(my laptop is old,so I have to choose waht to install). My question was if there is a way I can save my current package config so that if I reinstall Slackware,I could just load the config. Thanks for your help.

titopoquito · 01-23-2007, 06:54 PM

The best way would be to adjust the tagfiles I think. You can find them on your Slackware CD/DVD in the folder "slackware" in every subfolder. Set "ADD" to add packages and "SKP" to not install them. When installing from the CD you can mount them and tell the installer script to use it as your package selection.

Mount your CD somewhere, go to it in a console and enter the "slackware" folder. The following line will create a folder "tagfiles" in your /tmp folder and copy all tagfiles to it (it preservers the folder structure of the CD's slackware folder, which is important:

Code:

 for folder in $(find -type d); do mkdir -p /tmp/tagfiles/$folder; cp $folder/tagfile /tmp/tagfiles/$folder ; done

Then go to the /tmp/tagfiles folder. Go into each folder and run the following script (save it to /tmp/tagfiles or where you want). It should test if each package is installed. Please beware and look over the created tagfile.custom before uncommenting the last line!

Code:

#!/bin/sh

echo "# custom tagfile created by script" > tagfile.custom
while read line
  do 
    # get package name
    package=${line%%:*}
    
    # commenting lines are not important here, so don't process them
    if test ${line:0:1} = "#"; then continue
    fi

    # is there at least one installed package found whose name begins with that pattern?
    # yes: set tag option to ADD     no: set tag option to SKP
    if test $(ls /var/log/packages/$package* 2>/dev/null | wc -l) -gt 0
      then
        echo ${package}: ADD >> tagfile.custom
      else
        echo ${package}: SKP >> tagfile.custom
    fi
done < tagfile

# if you are sure that the script works like intended run
# it (only!) once on the tagfile after uncommenting the following line
# please run the script first and verify the output is right!

#cp tagfile.custom tagfile && rm tagfile.custom

Copy the tagfile folder to a floppy or somewhere else, mount it when installing and tell the installer where the "tagfiles" folder is.

JAKK · 01-23-2007, 08:14 PM

Hi. I will try running that script. Thanks for your help.

EDIT:Ok,the output seems right. Now,I just uncomment the last line and run it in each folder,right? Also,I have 2 install cds,so what I did was put cd 1 tagfiles in a directory called tagfiles and cd 2 in a directory called tagfiles2. My last question is how I tell the installer where the tagfiles are for each cd.

EDIT 2: Ok,I figured everything out and it all worked fine-the install was completley automatic. Thanks for your help.

titopoquito · 01-24-2007, 04:46 AM

You're welcome

Nice to hear that you got it working.