On 29/04/11 22:20, Steffen Möller wrote:
I must admit that I did not fully understand it. We need to find better ways for the cross-version packaging. It frequently escapes me that Debian Med's duty does not end (from the end users' view) with the auto-porting to Ubuntu but then needs to be available for the long term support, too. With the availability of a package with Bio-Linux, this demand would be set, right? And because Tim is doing such a nice job on this front, there is no need for a the Debian Med PPA that I had set up a few weeks ago except for those packages beyond the scope of Bio-Linux, this means. But Tony, you were referring to a transfer from an older Bio-Linux to a more recent one, right? Many greetings Steffen On 04/29/2011 11:07 PM, William Spooner wrote:This would make a great DebianMed blog post. Tony - we did something vaguely similar (debian med on LTS) about 2 weeks ago, although all that weened was a line adding to sources.list (the right line, mind).
Hi, Steffen and Will.I originally wrote this to help me port Bio-Linux4 to Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, but I've used it with all versions up to and including Bio-Linux6 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'm using it right now to make sure my Ununtu 10.04 LTS servers are as similar as possible to Bio-Linux 6. I also use it to check what packages are installed on my laptop version of Bio-Linux6.
Back in the day, when I used Debian, the mantra I learned to clone an installation from one machine to another was:
On the source machine: dpkg --get-selections > packages.sel On the destination machine: dpkg --set-selections < packages.sel apt-get dselect-upgradeThis is what I based the script on, but I also find it useful to track the packages installed on various machines against the Bio-Linux list, or compare machines against each other. I posted it to the Debian-Med list because I suspect there are better ways of doing it using some clever Debian tools that I don't know about.
Bye, Tony.