Re: Re: dselect features request

2006-04-10 Thread Nicolae Bedreag
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Re: dselect features request

1997-12-22 Thread Martin Buck
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 01:49:59PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote: Unfortunatly, that is because of the way dselect runs dpkg (dpkg -iGROBE), which then goes through the directorys and checks every package. I did a quick hack on dpkg last week to speed up -iGROEB. Basically, the patch does the

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I feel somewhat uneasy about making somehings as central as dpkg less foolproof, no matter how pathological the lessening of foolproofness maybe. Experience has taught ne that there are more fools than one imagines. I would not object to having the control files skipped by

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I had been a devoted Slackware fan, trying Debian convinced me that it is far superior a distribution. However, in the process of installing Debian 1.3.1 at least 15 times (several computers and several different plans on how to install them

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-20 Thread Radu Duta
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical installations. There is a twist to this. Allong with all the installed packages will come

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-20 Thread hollen
Radu Duta writes: RD On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical installations. RD There is a twist to this. Allong with all the

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-20 Thread Radu Duta
On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 12:15:29AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Radu Duta writes: RD On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections I noticed; well it's a start, that's for sure. There is a lot of info missing from that. As

dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread hollen
While I had been a devoted Slackware fan, trying Debian convinced me that it is far superior a distribution. However, in the process of installing Debian 1.3.1 at least 15 times (several computers and several different plans on how to install them all) it occurred to me that two features in

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical installations. Try $ dpkg --get-selections foobar [ move foobar to another machine ] $ dpkg --set-selections foobar

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Chris Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While I had been a devoted Slackware fan, trying Debian convinced me that it is far superior a distribution. However, in the process of installing Debian 1.3.1 at least 15 times (several computers and several different plans on how to install them all) it occurred to

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I had been a devoted Slackware fan, trying Debian convinced me that it is far superior a distribution. However, in the process of installing Debian 1.3.1 at least 15 times (several computers and several different plans on how to install them

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Jeff Sheinberg
From: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19 Dec 1997 10:51:29 -0600 [snip] Try $ dpkg --get-selections foobar [ move foobar to another machine ] $ dpkg --set-selections foobar Yes, but what about standard packages that I have de-selected? 39 root ~ # dpkg -s elm Package: elm