> > I have a system whose root partition died part way through an > incremental backup cycle. I'm afraid the "full" increment was spaced > too far, because I'd made a number of changes to the system in the > few days before the hard drive died (yes, I know, I should have done > a full backup then. I didn't have any more time for the machine then > than I do now, though). I _think_ the /var partition is still good > (or good enough to get some data off, anyway), and that I might be > able to get my package selections back more easily that way than from > the incremental backups. Will this work? >
let's see ..... /var/lib/dpkg/status. Every package marked 'Status: install ok installed' is installed.
