Re: Consistent installation of Debian in several machines

[Jeff Sheinberg <jeffsh@erols.com>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
 > On one master machine use "dpkg --get-selections > selections". Then
 > on the other machines do "dpkg --set-selections < selections". That way

Close, but no cigar.

Try instead:
    dpkg --get-selections '*' > selections

This will handle, e.g., purged standard packages correctly.

HTH,

-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <jeffsh@erols.com>


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