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Re: Remote administration of packages



On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 19:20:45 +0100, Bob Schlärmann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm searching for a software package to remotely administer
> apt-get. For example select which packages to be installed on a certain
> host or group of hosts, so that those packages are automaticly
> installed.

I've not heard of anything, but this should be relatively simple to
script.You can scp sources.list from a master machine to each client and
remotely start an 'apt-get update'

You can use 'dpkg --get-selections' on the master to generate a list of
installed packages, copy that to the other systems, load it with 'dpkg
--set-selections', and run 'dselect install' to install/deinstall packages
to match the list from the master system.

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