Horrible subject, but what I would like to do is to install a set of files on one debian machine via dselect and find an easy way to install the exact same set on another machine. I know there has been a discussion about this in terms of using backup/restore commands, but I only want to do this very infrequently and was wondering if some twist on the following might work:
Could you take some file (status?) from /var/lib/dpkg and edit it by hand and use a search and replace on the status line to change it from Status: install ok installed to something like Status: install ok not-installed and then put that file in /var/lib/dpkg/ on the other machine? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at <URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .