Re: dselect features request
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 hollen@vigra.com wrote:
> While I had been a devoted Slackware fan, trying Debian convinced me
> that it is far superior a distribution. However, in the process of
> installing Debian 1.3.1 at least 15 times (several computers and
> several different plans on how to install them all) it occurred to me
> that two features in `dselect` would be WONDERFUL!!!
>
> 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.
dpkg --get-selections
dpkg --set-selections
> 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.
Unfortunatly, that is because of the way dselect runs dpkg (dpkg -iGROBE),
which then goes through the directorys and checks every package. I've
solved the problem by mounting my CD info ftpable space and using
dpkg-ftp. The package dpkg-mountable will also provide a method that
doesn't do this.
--
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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