In <[🔎] 20090327195314.GT29844@swansys>, green wrote: >Paul E Condon wrote at 2009-03-27 09:26 -0600: >> Now, the discussion has moved to how to query the packaging system to >> get the most useful file of information. I'm still not sure what the >> query string should be. I think the most useful one is probably '~i|~c', which shows any package that is not completely uninstalled (including ones that just have configuration files hanging around). >Restoring the package set is not so simple as restoring the packages that > are manually selected as installed. There are at least these reasons: > >- virtual packages or 'OR' dependencies >- 'recommends' dependencies I'm not sure what the third one is, but the commands I posted in a reply that broke threading should handle both of those well. I will have to look into aptitude-create-state-bundle. I'm fairly sure that's mostly meant when you want to save your requested actions as well. For example, if the dependency resolver crashes or does something "stupid" that you'd like a developer to analyze (and possibly fix). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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