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Re: Clean patches for Credit Card CD



On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:20:45PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 20 May 2000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 20 May 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> > 
> > > > Its cut off.... minor ineffiencencies count major in cases where you are
> > > > short on space... could we have the boot-floppies package generate a list?
> > > 
> > > Probably. You'd better discuss this on debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> > 
> > I changed the script to match for Priority: required OR section: base....
> > the required packages are the most important for dependency calculations.
> > I think this will work decently even without having a list of base
> > packages from the debian-boot people.
> 
> Duh. It's so simple, but I only just thought of it:
> 
> tar xzOf base2_2.tgz ./var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -e '^Package: ' -e '^Status: ' | grep -B 1 '^Status: .* installed' | grep '^Package: ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2
> 
> (Should all be on one line; maybe mail agents do weird things...)
> 
> If you don't understand, build up the long pipe piece by piece.
> The grep on 'Status installed' is not really necessary, but in the future we
> just _might_ have 'removed' packages there, so you should check anyway (and it
> takes virtually no time).

The boot-floppies does create a list of what is in base2_2.tgz. It's
called base-contents.txt. It's basically a dpkg -l of the set.

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