Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Guntner" <david@guntner.com>
>>
>> I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm
>> going
>> to assume there's a corresponding command that produces
>> "mypackagelist,"
>> :-) so I suppose I could make it part of the backup procedure to make
>> a
>> new one of those with each backup run.
>>
> Yup, it's:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > mypackagelist
>
> You can run it from cron, or you can have backuppc run it before
> performing a backup.
>
> Ralf has a good point about backing up everything possible, just in case.
> But even if you do back up your entire system, there's no harm in backing
> up your package list like this -- just in case.
Yup. Pretty much what I'm going for. :-)
--Dave
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