On Ma, 03 dec 13, 17:51:11, Brad Alexander wrote: > > One point I would like to make is that it is probably not a bad idea to > capture this from all of your machines as a starting point to have a pool > of machine "types." For instance, being a believer in bastion hosts, I have > a separate firewall, backup machine, fileserver, workstations, laptop, and > containers (OpenVZ) for, for instance, mediawiki box, puppet master, etc. > Each machine runs a script (installed by puppet) that runs at 4am that does > an dpkg --get-selections and writes it to the filesytem. This is backed up > daily. This way, if I am building a new box of a type, I have a base config > from which to work. # list of installed packages with some exclusions aptitude --disable-columns -F %p search '~i!~M!~E!~pstandard!~pimportant!~prequired' > $BAK_DIR/$AUTO_PKG_LIST Hmm, I should probably take out the '!~pstandard', lately I've been installing without it. 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 http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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