RE: Replicating a system... sort of
I was under the impression that if you wanted to copy selections from one
machine to the next, the proper syntax was
vv
dpkg --get-selections \* > file
But then again, he has stable on one box and testing on the next, so I dunno
what's best.
If you can't swap selections between releases like that, you can always
shell script it...
> cat your_install
nosql3
> for proggie in `cat your_install`
do
apt-get install $proggie
done
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nate [mailto:debian-user@aphroland.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:06 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Replicating a system... sort of
>
>
> Paul M Foster said:
> > I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one
> on my desk.
> > (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious
> when I have to
> > pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a
> Woody, but the
> > system I'm setting up is testing.
> >
> > I have a list of packages that I put on every system I run,
> for example:
> > lynx, hextype, units, remind, links, nosql3, sqlite, etc.
> I'd like to be
> > able to install a base system, put these package names in
> some text file,
> > point dselect/apt (or something else) at it, and have them
> > downloaded and configed as usual. Is there a package that does this?
>
> on old machine:
> dpkg --get-selections >selections
>
> copy selections to new machine
>
> dpkg --set-selections <selections
>
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> bingo :)
>
> nate
>
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