In <[🔎] loom.20090422T085218-105@post.gmane.org>, J.M.Roth wrote: >Now... I've been playing a little bit with this. > >First, I get some >warning: Unknown type error, skipping line >using debconf-set-selections < ... Hrm, that's somewhat troubling. It won't affect which packages are installed, but it will affect how they are configured. >While that does not worry me much, I get a >xargs: aptitude: exited with status 255; aborting >at the end of >xargs -r -- aptitude markauto < ... >Probably, this is because conflicts are generated, however there were/are > no conflicts on the original system. > >Of and BTW you had better use: >#dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install"' > ... >(Note the *two* equality signs) I was wondering where all those > unnecessary conflicts were coming from ;-) D'oh! Sorry, my awk skills are still growing, and I didn't thoroughly test the actions I proposed. >I need to say that sometimes I feel a bit dazzled by all these tools >dselect >dpkg >apt-get >aptitude http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/a-better-map-of-the-apt- state-files/ might help. Daniel Burrows does a lot of aptitude development so you might get some more good information by following his blog http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/ which is also aggregated on planet Debian http://planet.debian.net/ . > I guess the > auto flag of aptitude is exclusive to aptitude, otherwise we would not > have to set it manually. Yes. Although you *could* set it after you complete the install part of the restore. If aptitude needs to change your selections, though, it helps the resolver to know if something was automatically installed. >Oh and I guess to make things really right one would have to use >--get-selections '*' >during the backup, or an additional >dpkg --clear-selections >before the restore. Just a thought. --clear-selections before the restore makes sense. But, any selection other than "install" isn't really necessary to reproduce. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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