> From: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 19 Dec 1997 10:51:29 -0600
[snip]
> Try
> 
>   $ dpkg --get-selections > foobar
>     [ move foobar to another machine ]
>   $ dpkg --set-selections < foobar

Yes, but what about standard packages that I have de-selected?

39 root ~ # dpkg -s elm
Package: elm
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: standard
Section: mail

40 root ~ # dpkg -l elm
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
pn  elm             <none>         (no description available)
41 root ~ # dpkg --get-selections | grep elm
42 root ~ # echo $?
1

-- 
Jeff Sheinberg  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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