RE: syncing debian packages on two machines

["Peter Kocks" <pk@kocks.com>]

One way is fine, as long as it does not also remove any
critical packages from the production system.

So, I assume that dpkg --get-selections does ONLY that,
i.e. it just gets the selections if they are not already
installed.
It does not remove packages not in the selection list.

Thanks Ray.

--pk


> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [mailto:dm@zensunni.demon.nl]
> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 2:44 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: syncing debian packages on two machines
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 13:12:31 -0800, Peter Kocks wrote:
> > For the moment, I'm fine with the production
> box have the exact same
> > packages installed as the development box.
> Unfortunately, I've used
> > dselect on both machines to do the original
> install and the machines are
> > now out of sync.
> >
> > So, you do I sync the package list on both
> machines easily? automated?
>
> That depends a lot on what you mean by sync. If
> you simply mean one-way "I
> want the production box to have the same packages
> as the development box",
> you could do, from the development box
> 	dpkg --get-selections | ssh productionbox
> "dpkg --get-selections && apt-get dselect-upgrade"
> Note that this does not necessarily mean you'll
> have the same versions of
> those packages installed.
>
> HTH,
> Ray
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