hi, i want to save all my package info off to the side and do a re-install of lenny so i can restructure my logical volumes. (i realize i can do that manually with the various lvm commands but given how much i want to move things around, and that this install is still on a new server which isn't being used yet so i have no data to save, it's just easier to reinstall).
i can see the idea of using dpkg with --get-selections and --set-selections, and googling showed me this: http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/debian_notes_cheat_sheets.html#get_and_or_set_list%20_of_installed_packages but as i read that, i saw references to the two commands: debconf-get-selections debconf-set-selections yet i see only the first of those two on this system (the set variation). that seems odd -- i can't find the first one. am i missing something obvious? in any event, if i have little configuration information to preserve, what's the simplest recipe to save my pkg info, then restore it after a really basic fresh install? thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
