On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:38:45, Avi Greenbury wrote: > David Sastre wrote: > > > You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to > > request that (or any other) info: > > You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so: > > dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections > > packagelist.txt You probably meant /mnt/backup/var/lib/dpkg > I'd imagine you could just pipe that into another dpkg, too: > > dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections | dpkg > --set-selections Cool :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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