[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to
> a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical
> installations.
Try
$ dpkg --get-selections > foobar
[ move foobar to another machine ]
$ dpkg --set-selections < foobar
> 2) Once all packages are selected, don't skip packages that are
> deselected, just ignore them. Dselect for ftp install works this
> way, why can't the disk based dselect as well? It looks like much
> time is spent "skipping" packages that do not need to be
> installed.
I think that the dpkg-mountable package might eliminate this problem
if you use it as the access method, but I haven't tried it yet.
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