Re: lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo (continue))

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Craig Sanders writes ("lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo (continue))"):
...
> if dpkg were to keep a list of all selected files and a list of
> pathnames to available deb files, then it could simply iterate through
> the list of selected packages.

The information is already in dpkg's status areas.

If you take the first word from each Status: line in
/var/lib/dpkg/status and copy it to the corresponding place on another
machine you'll have copied the selectedness or otherwise of all the
packages.

Ian.

(Wild crossposting and CCs removed.)