Re: dselect features request

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

hollen@vigra.com writes:

> 1)  Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to
>     a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical
>     installations. 

Try

  $ dpkg --get-selections > foobar
    [ move foobar to another machine ]
  $ dpkg --set-selections < foobar

> 2)  Once all packages are selected, don't skip packages that are
>     deselected, just ignore them.  Dselect for ftp install works this
>     way, why can't the disk based dselect as well?  It looks like much
>     time is spent "skipping" packages that do not need to be
>     installed. 

I think that the dpkg-mountable package might eliminate this problem
if you use it as the access method, but I haven't tried it yet.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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