Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 19:18 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[...]
> Alternatively, you can plug in the new drive and do a minimal install on it.
> Use 
> 
> dpkg --get-selections > somefilename 
> 
> to get a list of packages installed on one system and write it into somefile.
> 
> dpkg --set-selections < somefilename
> 
> will write that list for Debian's most basic package manager.
> 
> apt update ; apt dist-upgrade
> 
>  will then use that information to isntall the same package list onto the
> second machine as exists on the first machine - but that's complex.

Won't that process set all those packages as manually installed, so
should you later uninstall a top level package it's dependedncied won't
be automatically removed?

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Tixy