debian-specific machine cloning

[Dale E Martin <dmartin@cliftonlabs.com>]

Hello.  I maintain a small network of debian machines.  I've got one
machine that is kind of "golden" in a sense.  It's running stable + key
backports for various tools I need.  I thought about writing a script to
take the contents of "dpkg --list" and ram it through "dpkg-repack" and
basically end up with a set of packages representing everything on this
machine - then I can install them on the other machines that I maintain.
But I have to think that this is a solved problem.  Is it?

Thanks!
	Dale
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Dale E. Martin, Clifton Labs, Inc.
Senior Computer Engineer
dmartin@cliftonlabs.com
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