On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:16:02 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > > [...] > > > > on first sytsem: > > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > > on new base install: > > > copy over selections.txt > > > dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt > > > dselect update > > > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > > > This is one of the prefered way but debian doesn't afaik have a way to > > include such info as your currect configurations. So this will install > > the packages but then you have to answer the debconf questions and then > > do the final configurations to files in /etc or elsewhere. > > The debconf settings can be transferred with > > debconf-get-selections (from package debconf-utils) > > and > > debconf-set-selections (from package debconf itself) > My understanding of Debconf is that they represent the initial setting of a package. How would you make them take affect for the packages? Would you: old% dpkg --get-selection > selections.txt old% debconf-get-selections > debconf-selections.txt new% dpkg --set-selections > selections.txt new% dselect update new% apt-get dselect-upgrade new% debconf-set-selections < debconf-selections.txt new% dpkg-reconfigure --all
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