How to really restore packages with pkg backup?

[oxyaxion]

Hi all,

I'm trying to restore installed packages in a fresh FreeBSD install, from another server pkg database export.

pkg backup -d file.db and pkg backup -r file.db only dumping / restoring database, indeed.

But how to "force" pkg to really install the package list like the host-master configuration?

 

[junovitch@]

Re: How to really restore packets with pkg backup ?

pkg upgrade -fy would normally be what you are looking for to force a re-install of everything. However, I don't know what would happen when you take a package database from one machine and put it on another since that doesn't appear to be what backing up the database is designed to do.

 

[gkontos]

Excellent solution! Actually it is the only one that I have found so far for bootstrapping a new server with packages from a local repo. Assuming that you maintain a recent pkg.sql you can easily deploy a new server within minutes.