Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?

[Andrew Sullivan <sullivana@bpl.on.ca>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:57:24AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:

> dpkg --get-selections --root=/whever-you-have-mounted-your-dead-system
> may work.

This worked beautifully, once I constructed a "fake" path under a
temporary directory.

Thanks for the suggestions, all.

A

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