On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:33:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 22:51, Carl Johnson wrote:
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> writes:
I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the
best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a single item, so this
isn't a problem in those cases.
In the backup script:
dpkg --get-selections > pkgs.installed.txt
In the restore script:
dpkg --set-selections < pkgs.installed.txt
Don't you then lose all the manaul/automatic distinction in aptitude?
Wouldn't they all show up as manually installed? It would then take a
lot of work to go through the list and mark stuff accordingly.