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.
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