Re: Preparations for installing a Farm
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:07:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> * Paul Sargent <Paul.Sargent@3dlabs.com> [2001.11.08 13:20:21+0000]:
> > OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stable part
> > of the UK mirror?
>
> stable (i.e. potato)
>
> > > do you purge or delete packages?
> >
> > I tend to purge, trying to keep the system as clean as possible.
>
> good. i thought --set-selections takes care of that. let me research a
> little...
I think the key is when doing your get-selections use:
dpkg --get-selections \* > my_selections
Without the '*' dpkg will only list installed packages. With the '*'
it will also list purged packages.
John
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