On 04/11/13 14:50, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:56:27AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 11/4/2013 7:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:20:17PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote:
In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to
install all the packages which I presently have in a box with Squeeze.
Why can't you just upgrade?
IOW, unlikely that you'll get any help with your "jump through the
hoops" method.
Maybe because it's a new box so there's nothing to upgrade?
I'm looking for the same information - for the same reason.
What information for what reason? If you mean to take a selection of
installed packages from a Squeeze box (unfortunate name) and apply some
sort of dpkg --get-selections/dpkg --set-selections onto a Wheezy box
then I would advise against it.
Who knows what gruels are waiting in the dark.
I may be wrong, and it is a supported method, but if it coughs at some
point, I'd hate to be the one to (help) clean up the mess.
Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and
then install the top level packages you require.
Or install Squeeze on the new box do the dpkg --get-selections/dpkg
--set-selections thing, THEN upgrade to Wheezy.
Anyone else have any better ideas?
I asked the self-same question here back in july:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/07/msg00138.html
I got some help/advice, but for various reasons, which I can't remember,
it was all broken, and didn't work...
I gave up; cleaning up the mess consisted of reformatting, and redoing
a netinstall.
I then installed/removed packages manually. TBH, it didn't take too much
effort, and certainly wasn't worth the effort trying to "JTTH" ;)
It would seem that this is raised often enough that it might be worth
developing a method to support this, but it would need a lot more than
my flimsy understanding of the debian packaging system to do this.