Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:03:49PM -0400, Michael Olson wrote: >> It also might be a good idea to make a backup of the list of packages >> that we have installed, and keep around a script which is capable of >> restoring that list. I've attached two scripts which save and restore >> said list that I made and tested at work. > > dpkg --get-selection > file > dpkg --set-selections < file && apt-get dselect-upgrade
That's basically what they do, except they strip out the "Install: " part when saving to file, so it's easier to manually massage the listing if need be. Also, my scripts adds the "-y" to apt-get to force the install. -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 -- http://www.mwolson.org/ Interests: Lisp, text markup, protocols -- Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net /` |\ | | | Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS, Planner, ErBot, DVC |_] | \| |_| Reclaim your digital rights by eliminating DRM. See http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm for details.
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