Re: Keeping packages in sync (over multiple workstations)

[Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org>]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> Sylvain de Crom <sysv@a-eskwadraat.nl> wrote:
> > I tried to sync them with dpkg --get-selections on one system, and the
> > output to dpkg --set-selections on another followed by apt-get
> > dselect-upgrade. This got the systems nearer together, but it didn't
> > deinstall the surplus packages on the second system.
> Try to use 
> dpkg --get-selections ''
> to make it output about uninstalled and purged packages, too.

[tv@ki ~]$ dpkg --get-selections ''
No packages found matching .

	You mean dpkg --get-selections '*'

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