[CentOS] A question about 7

Tue Jan 14 20:41:57 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
> How bad is the worst case -- reinstall the OS and rebuild the software
> -- anyway?  By doing your initial work on the RHEL 7 beta, you learn
> what you need to know to quickly redo the work on CentOS 7.

Is there anything to simplify the process of duplicating the set of
installed packages when you didn't pay that much attention the first
time around?   It seems like taking the list from 'rpm -qa' on a
running machine and feeding it to 'yum install ....' on a new minimal
install should get pretty close, but then you need to find all of your
locally modified config files.  Most of that should be under
/etc/sysconfig for an easy diff, but not everything.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com