Hello *,
I have a nice idea and need for it. ;-)
Since I am Debian GNU/Linux Consultant and have MANY Debian instalations
at customers I have written a script, which catch the names of installed
packages using
PKGLIST=`ssh -l ${SSHLOGIN} ${SSHHOST} "if [ -d /var/lib/dpkg/info ] ; then for PKG in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list ; do echo \"\$(basename \${PKG} .list)\" ; done ; else exit 127 ; fi"`
and it works very well and fast. So now I have collected lists of
installed packages of arround 2800 machines "cat" and "sort" them and
now I am missing an easy "Ready-To-Use" tool which build a Debian CD
from this list. (the spidered hosts are sorted by ARCH)
Does I have overseen something in "debian-cd"?
Can such functionality be added to the "debian-cd" scripts?
I should note, that ALL 1258 packages installed on those 2800 Machines
(i386) fit on a singel CD (!!!) and there is much space left which I
generaly use for "per-customer" configs/scripts.
And of course, it would be nice, if insteed of downloading the standard
torrent files, they could be generated based on the need above. Which
mean, the packages a user has installed, going onto the fist CD, maybe
the second and then the rest according to the popularity contest...
This would speedup things and save more bandwidth...
Also I should note, that my own full blown network require only 873
Packages with less then 510 MByte. (I was realy surprised about it; OK
I do not use bloatware, but OpenWriter and IceApe)
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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