Re: dpkg database rebuild

[Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca>]

> Matej Cepl wrote:
> 
>> Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>>> If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the
>>> dpkg database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the
>>> packages installed ?
>> 
>> What about
>> 
>> dpkg --get-selections
>> dpkg --set-selections
>> 
>> RTFM, dpkg(1)
>> 
>> Or you can use (which is my preferred way):
>> 
>> aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' > installed.txt
>> 
>> Then simple editing of installed.txt will make you script to install the
>> same packages on new computer.

OK, so looking at it, you don't even need to make a script:

aptitude install `cat installed.txt`    

Nice, Matej.  I think I'll just cron that command on a weekly basis.
-- 
derek