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Re: apt-deb-list?



lör 2003-05-03 klockan 00.52 skrev Steve Kemp:
> On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 12:02:54AM +0200, smurfd wrote:
> > Hey there!
> > 
> > Ive been thinking about coding together an application, that is able to
> > save a list of current installed packages, and then at another time, use
> > that list and install/remove the differences from the current installed
> > packages.
> > 
> > I don't know if there is some application that does these things already
> > in Debian?
> 
>   I wrote a perl script to do something related, it will read in a list
>  of packages installed upon a machine, then write that list to a cache
>  file.
> 
>   If you run it again it will show what packages have been added/removed
>  since the previous run.
> 
>   Packaged for Debian and available here:
> 
>   		http://www.steve.org.uk/apt/
> 
> 	(The name is dpkg-changes)
> 
>   Updating it to read in a new list would be trivial, as would
>  downloading the packages via a shell-out to apt-get.
> 
>   I hope that's useful to you.
> 
> Steve
> ---
> www.steve.org.uk

Thanks, it was exactly as i wanted my program to be.

Darn, now i have to go look for something else to do ;)

-- 
smurfd <smurfd@PunkAss.com>




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