Re: dselect selection

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

On Mar 21, tgakem@chem.tue.nl wrote
> I want to install debian on different PC's using  same  selection of
> packages  for each PC.  Is it possible if I have one PC fully configured
> to take its list of  installed  packages  and  install these  on  a
> second  pc, whithout having to go through the whole list with dselect
> again?  I'm currently using the debian  release on the recent Infomagic
> CD-ROM set (the green one).

This has been discussed on this list before, but I don't recall the
suggestions; check the archives or dejanews (linux.debian.user).

I suspect that you can do it like this: [note: I have never done this, I
just took a look at dpkg's options]
[on "mother" machine A]
	dpkg --get-selections  > thelist
[on "child" machine B]
	dpkg --set-selections < thelist
	dselect
	install

Additionally, you'll probably want to reuse your configuration files, so
something like
	cd / ; tar cvf conffiles.tar `cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*conffiles`
and delete host-specific conffiles (e.g. /etc/hostname) from that.

HTH,
Ray
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