>> Radu Duta writes: RD> On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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.
RD> There is a twist to this. Allong with all the installed packages will RD> come all the configuration files that you may have modified. For RD> example sendmail,X11,ntp,etc configurations, default editor, and others. RD> That's a problem I'm going to try to solve, since I'm in the same RD> predicament myself, having to save configurations for machines. The RD> first step is getting the MD5 sums in the deb files though, and I'm RD> still working on that one. What about this from another respondent: > dpkg --get-selections > dpkg --set-selections Does this have the predicament with config files? >> 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. RD> I HATE that. I gave up on CD installs. I found a ftp server that was RD> close to me and now I'm just using that instead since the "skippy" problem RD> doesn't exist with the ftp option. I probably should have brought up RD> the issue a while ago. Also, the same respondent gave this clever way around that: > Unfortunatly, that is because of the way dselect runs dpkg (dpkg -iGROBE), > which then goes through the directorys and checks every package. I've > solved the problem by mounting my CD info ftpable space and using > dpkg-ftp. The package dpkg-mountable will also provide a method that > doesn't do this. Thanks for the reply, dion -- Dion Hollenbeck (619)597-7080x164 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vigra.com/~hollen Sr. Software Engineer - Vigra Div. of Visicom Labs San Diego, California -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .