Re: apt-deb-list?

[Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>]

On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:02:54AM +0200, smurfd wrote:
> Hey there!
> 
> Ive been thinking about coding together an application, that is able to
> save a list of current installed packages, and then at another time, use
> that list and install/remove the differences from the current installed
> packages.
> 
> I don't know if there is some application that does these things already
> in Debian?

  I wrote a perl script to do something related, it will read in a list
 of packages installed upon a machine, then write that list to a cache
 file.

  If you run it again it will show what packages have been added/removed
 since the previous run.

  Packaged for Debian and available here:

  		http://www.steve.org.uk/apt/

	(The name is dpkg-changes)

  Updating it to read in a new list would be trivial, as would
 downloading the packages via a shell-out to apt-get.

  I hope that's useful to you.

Steve
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