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' will output all selections to stdout, and 'dpkg
--set-selections' will set selections from stdin. you can use this to
redirect selections to a file and/or over a network connection with rsh
or ssh.
this isn't perfect, but can save a lot of time when you are building a lot
of identical (or nearly identical) systems.
> 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.
try installing the dpkg-mountable package and selecting that as the
access method (first option on the dselect menu). dpkg-mountable is a
greatly improved install method which does what you want. it's close to
perfect.
IMO it would be perfect if it sorted the packages into dependancy order
before installing them (maybe by making use of manoj's pkg-order stuff).
craig
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