RE: The future of Debian install??
Craig Sampson wrote (on 12 Mar 2002 at 19:57):
> I may have missed something (sure hope so), but what I'd find
> immensely useful is a way of being able to choose, at install (or
> other) time what packages I want then save this selection 'list'
> to a file so that when I next install Debian on another box I can
> just tell it to use the previously made selections.
Maybe you can adapt this:
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From: Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>
To: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>
Subject: Re: Debian Reinstall
Date sent: Wed, 23 May 2001 08:56:08 -0700
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Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 09-May-2001 Ronan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I am wondering is there anyway to save your current installed
> > packages information and when you reinstall for apt or dselect to
> > know what packages to install or remove to restore your system to
> > the previous state?
> >
>
> 2 steps:
>
> a)
> # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/deinstall$/purge/'|dpkg
> # --set-selections apt-get dselect-upgrade # this removes any lingering
> # packages in your list
>
> b)
> # dpkg --get-selections|sed -e 's/hold$/install/' > package_list
> # copy package_install /somewhere/safe
>
> Then, after the install:
>
> # dpkg --set-selections < package_list
> # apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> The sed call is to ensure that even packages on hold get stored
> properly.
This is very clever and effective. I tried it today and it
worked like a
charm to get a good package list for backup and of course purge
deinstalled packages as per a).
BTW, How can I find why a package is on hold?
Thanks again,
Eric
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