On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:37:44 +0300 Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 May 2010 10:16, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've never heard of that! Going through the manpage, it looks like you > >> might be referring to "get-selections". Is that it? If not, can you > >> give some more details? Thanks! > >> > > > > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261366 > > > > Nice, thanks! > > Not as clean as it doesn't handle packages with long names (usually 4 or 5 of these installed) Hope that I didn't miss anything, did do this occasionally (keeps things withing apt, you can do the first part with dpkg/dselect and then fix the auto stuff with aptitude) aptitude search ~i > packages.txt and on the other machine aptitude install `cut -c 5-36 packages.txt` aptitude markauto `grep "^..A" packages.txt | cut -c 5-36` The only problem with this approach is that if you inhibited installation of recommended packages on the original machine, they will still be installed on the target (possible to store packages on the target and uninstall extra packages based on diff) _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
