Re: Woody vs. Sarge vs. You've heard this before ;-)
On 13 Aug 2003 18:25:16 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 4. Proceed with installing the rest of the packages I need. Of
> course, I have a list of such packages, since I make regular
> backups, including a "COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > package.lis" and
> scp it to another machine.
I did that until I discovered "dpkg --get-selections > package.lis".
The recovery procedure is then "dpkg --set-selecttions < package.lis",
followed by "apt-get dselect-upgrade". It works *very* nicely.
Kevin
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