Re: backup vs package manager

[Ax <ax@capitol.cz>]

Dne st 5. prosinec 2001 00:58 Karsten M. Self napsal(a):
> > The description of those options of dpkg is short of details.
> > So ... do those --get-selections and --set-selections indeed
> > serve to put the package-manager's database back the way it
> > ought to be ( given that I got the right selection
> > to start with ) ?
>
> Yes.
>
>    dpkg --get-selections > file  # save package settings.
>    dpkg --set-selections < file  # set package settings.

No ;-)
  it wont deselect packages.
Ax
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