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Export installed Chocolatey packages as packages.config - thanks to Matty666
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Export-Chocolatey.ps1
#Put this in Export-Chocolatey.ps1 file and run it:
#.\Export-Chocolatey.ps1 > packages.config
#You can install the packages using
#choco install packages.config -y
Write-Output "<?xml version=`"1.0`" encoding=`"utf-8`"?>"
Write-Output "<packages>"
choco list -lo -r -y | % { " <package id=`"$($_.SubString(0, $_.IndexOf("|")))`" version=`"$($_.SubString($_.IndexOf("|") + 1))`" />" }
Write-Output "</packages>"
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Write-Output "<?xml version=`"1.0`"encoding=`"utf-8`"?>"
Write-Output "<packages>"
choco list -lo -r -y |%{ "<package id=`"$($_.SubString(0,$_.IndexOf("|")))`"version=`"$($_.SubString($_.IndexOf("|") +1))`"/>"}
Write-Output "</packages>"
Out-File -FilePath .\packages.config

I added one line to this little script. Now, when it executes it automatically creates the pachages.config file that can be directly passed to chocolatey .

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