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Re: Question about get-selections



In <[🔎] 20090424055608.GB20573@big.lan.gnu>, Paul E Condon wrote:
>In the aptitude-create-state-bundle description, they give a list of
> exactly what they (the documenters of the aptitude program no less)
> believe to be the sum total of what is needed to recreate a living apt
> system. This list is:
>
>    $HOME/.aptitude
>    /var/lib/aptitude
>    /var/lib/apt
>    /var/cache/apt/*.bin
>    /etc/apt
>    /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>It is not a very long list, but it does include a lot more than merely
>a list of installed packages, and, particularly significant for this
>thread, it does not include a copy of the output from running
>--get-selections.

I'm pretty sure dpkg --get-selections is just (part of) the data in 
/var/lib/dpkg/status, in a different format.
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