Re: dselect features request
>> Radu Duta writes:
RD> On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, hollen@vigra.com wrote:
>> 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.
RD> There is a twist to this. Allong with all the installed packages will
RD> come all the configuration files that you may have modified. For
RD> example sendmail,X11,ntp,etc configurations, default editor, and others.
RD> That's a problem I'm going to try to solve, since I'm in the same
RD> predicament myself, having to save configurations for machines. The
RD> first step is getting the MD5 sums in the deb files though, and I'm
RD> still working on that one.
What about this from another respondent:
> dpkg --get-selections
> dpkg --set-selections
Does this have the predicament with config files?
>> 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.
RD> I HATE that. I gave up on CD installs. I found a ftp server that was
RD> close to me and now I'm just using that instead since the "skippy" problem
RD> doesn't exist with the ftp option. I probably should have brought up
RD> the issue a while ago.
Also, the same respondent gave this clever way around that:
> 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.
Thanks for the reply,
dion
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Sr. Software Engineer - Vigra Div. of Visicom Labs San Diego, California
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