On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:42:39PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Thom May wrote: > > * Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > 1. I highly recomment doing a 'dpkg -l >old-packages.list' before the > > > upgrade. > > is this not what 'dpkg --get-selections >old-packages.list' is for? > > ( the benefit of that is > > No, not in this case. A readable list of packages is the only way I know > how to compare my end result with my starting position.
I usually find that --get-selections is preferable, but not because I want to feed it back to --set-selections - it's because it doesn't truncate package names to a rather short length like -l does. Of course, you don't get version numbers this way, so YMMV. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
