Re: Use case for aptitude-{create,run}-state-bundle ?

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

Le 18/05/2013 04:30, sp113438 a écrit :
> On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:24:21 -0700
> Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anybody tell me when I might want to use aptitude-{create,run}-
> > state-bundle ?
> >
> > Is it, for example, useful for cloning a machine configuration
> > following a re-install from scratch?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Rick
> #!/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.
It does not. You loose the information that some packages where 
installed only as dependencies.