Moving to new PC

[Jonathan Horne]

On Sunday 17 September 2006 08:35, White Hat wrote:
> I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near
> future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was
> therefore wondering if the following scenario was
> possible.
>
> 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system
> 2) Untar the collection into the same location on new
> PC
> 3) Run portsnap to get an up-to-date ports collection
> 4) Run portmanager to actually install the ports.
>
> I have close to 500 entries in the directory and
> trying to install them all manually is a lot of work.
> Of course there are META packages like KDE, but still
> I would have a lot of manual work involved to get it
> all back to the same state I had it in on the old PC.
> It would seem to me that by doing it in this fashion
> all of the programs would be built correctly for the
> new system which is going to be quite a bit different
> than the one I have now.
>
> In theory this seems to work, but I wanted to know if
> it is actually possible before attempting it.

sounds interesting enough.  if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, 
ill supply the test computer, and post the results.

cheers,
jonathan