On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:46:19AM -0600, Carol Kankelborg wrote: } Since my Fink installation takes up so much space and is fairly } re-creatable it doesn't make much sense to back it up when I back-up } my other data. However, I don't want to have to remember what } packages I had installed to recreate my Fink installation. Is there } some minimal set of files (like a list of what Fink has installed) I } can back-up that will allow me to recreate what I have in the event of } a crash?
Since Fink is based on Debian, I believe that you can do that same thing that I would do under Debian: dpkg --get-selections \* will produce a list of all of the packages you have ever had installed and their status (install, remove, purge). You can save this list, then redirect it into dpkg --set-selections to put it back. That will tell dpkg what should be installed, but you will need to run apt-get dselect-upgrade to make it happen. You should probably run fink update-all for good measure after that. I am not 100% certain that this will automatically rebuild everything it should, but I am pretty certain that the list you back up will be complete if you wind up needing to install package by hand. } Is it safe to assume all the packages keep any user setup data in the } User's home directory? If not, where might they keep that data? Yes, it's safe to assume that. } Thanks, Carol -- --Greg ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
