RE: Backup Package names currently installed

["Jochen Daum" <jochen.daum@cans.co.nz>]

Hi !

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:05:10PM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:12, Michael Dominok wrote:
> > > dpkg -l |grep --extended-regexp
> --regexp='^[uirph]c|^[uirph]i'|awk {'
> > > print $2 "=" $3'} >/tmp/p_list
> > I have to correct myself. Just noticed that packages with
> long names
> > could get chopped this way.
>
> Prepend the above command with something like 'COLUMNS=200
> ' to see full package
> names.
>
> > A better way of getting a p_list:
> >
> > cat /var/lib/dpkg/available |grep --extended-regexp
> '^Package' |awk
> > {'print $2'} >/tmp/p_only
> > cat /var/lib/dpkg/available |grep --extended-regexp
> '^Version' |awk
> > {'print $2'} >/tmp/v_only
> > paste -d'=' /tmp/p_only /tmp/v_only >/tmp/p_list
>
> For me, this p_list now includes packages that I have
> deinstalled, and
> dpkg --get-selections shows them as deinstalled. I believe
> if you use
> this p_list you may try to install *all* available packages found in
> your sources.list rather than just the packages you have installed
> currently.
>

Yeah, I saw that. But it gives me enough pointers to set up my own
solution. Once I decided for something, I will post it here.

Jochen