On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 02:39:54PM +0100, Sylvain de Crom wrote: > We aim at giving a identical workstation to all our users, eg the same > packages and the same configuration on all the workstations. But as time > goes people tend to install `temporarily` packages (to compile mozilla > for instance) so our workstations have become out of sync. > > I tried to sync them with dpkg --get-selections on one system, and the > output to dpkg --set-selections on another followed by apt-get > dselect-upgrade. This got the systems nearer together, but it didn't > deinstall the surplus packages on the second system. > > Could someone give me a hint to how I should get the machines in sync? Use debfoster, and instead of using --get/set-selections, copy the keepers file from the master system to the other systems, and rerun debfoster. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>
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