RE: Copy configuration

[lspeil@t-online.de (Lothar Speil)]

Hi Michael,

thanks, "get/set-selections" was what I'm searching for!

Gruss,
Lothar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Bramer [mailto:grisu@debian.org]
> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 10:05 PM
> To: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Copy configuration
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 08:16:46PM +0200, Lothar Speil wrote:
> > I want to copy the package configuration, so I can install 
> another computer
> > with the same selection.
> > 
> > Which files contains the selection status?
> > For example with SuSE-Linux it is possible to load and store the
> > configuration on a disk.
> 
> You get the packages status with:
> 	dpkg --get-selections 
> and you can set this selection with 
> 	dpkg --set-selections
> 
> If you mean the configuration of the packages/programms, copy all
> files in /etc/ and you get it all (unlike suse):
> 	tar -zkcf /root/etc.tar.gz /etc/ 
> 
> Gruss
> Grisu
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>