deb package lists and backing up...

[Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>]

Hi,

I have a debian box that is very "standard", in that not very much is
customized other than my fstab, .xinitrc, passwd, etc. Is there a way that
I can back up the debian package database and if my hard disk fails or I
accidentally `rm -rf /`, restore the package database onto a virgin potato
base system and have apt get all the packages that I had previously
installed? What file(s) would I need to maintain current backups of?


Hope this is the right list, none of the others seem to have anything to
do with package management...

Thanks.


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