On Sb, 18 mai 13, 00:13:42, Rick Thomas wrote: > On May 17, 2013, at 7:30 PM, sp113438 wrote: > > > >#!/bin/bash > >datetag=$(date +%Y-%m-%d_-_%H:%M:%S) > > > >dpkg --get-selections > /root/dpkglist-$datetag.txt > > > >On second machine: > >## dpkg --set-selections < /root/dpkglist-$datetag.txt > >## apt-get dselect-upgrade > > > >should do the cloning job. Not quite. First, this sequence of commands only transfers the 'installed/uninstalled' state of a package, so it looses information. This information may or may not be important to you, but it still isn't "cloning". Second, there has been a change in dpkg behaviour as of wheezy and AFAIR additional steps are needed, you might want to look it up. > That's interesting, and even useful. Thanks! It's something I > didn't know and have often wondered about. > > Nevertheless, it still doesn't answer the first question: What > useful thing is done by aptitude-create-state-bundle ? I've only encountered those commands when aptitude maintainers were asking for more information on difficult bugs, but as far as I can tell from the man pages they should do what you think they do, including information about manually/automatically installed and such. You might be interested in apt-clone as well. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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