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Andor
Asked: 2011-01-27 12:16:50 +0800 CST

Clone ports from bsd installation to another

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I have a production FreeBSD webserver which I would like to "clone" to create a development/preproduction server.

I've installed a clean FreeBSD server and now I would like to know if there's an easy way to list all the ports installed on the production server, get that list out and input that to the new server, so I can easily install all the same apps and same versions than in the production machine.

We are using:
FreeBSD 7.1
portmaster as a port manager

freebsd bsd

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This is from the EXAMPLES section of the portmaster man page:

    • First, get a list of installed ports:

      portmaster --list-origins > installed-port-list

    • On your target system, use that list as input to portmaster:

      portmaster `cat installed-port-list`
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  2. you need bash

    mkdir -p /usr/local/pkg

    cd /usr/local/pkg

    for i in pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d " " ; do pkg_create -b $i ; done

    then, scp the resulting pkgs to the target server and install them by pkg_add * Then, copy over the /usr/local/etc of the source-server and copy any entries in /etc/rc.conf and related files that seem useful and appropriate.

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