Re: Configuration DB
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:
> begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400:
>
>> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in
>> a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that
>> next time when I have to reinstall Debian, using apt-get install
>> <all my package list>, I don't have to answer those hard and tedious
>> questions again?
>
> Look at the man page for dpkg; particularly, '--get-selections' and
> '--set-selections'.
Hi, Alec, thanks for the reply,
The '--get-selections' and '--set-selections' only give your the list of
packages, they won't save configuration for you.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, try apt-get install xfree on a
box that doesn't have xfree.
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