copying dpkg info to another machine?

1997-05-23 Thread Colin Telmer
Horrible subject, but what I would like to do is to install a set of files on one debian machine via dselect and find an easy way to install the exact same set on another machine. I know there has been a discussion about this in terms of using backup/restore commands, but I only want to do this

Re: copying dpkg info to another machine?

1997-05-23 Thread Bruce Perens
Could you take some file (status?) from /var/lib/dpkg and edit it by hand It's not nearly that nasty. Use dpkg --get-selections to output the list of selected packages, and use dpkg --set-selections to set it on the other machine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED]