Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-06 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 13:17:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/05/2020 12:00 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 10:30:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. > > > > > I'm setting out to do an

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 apr 20, 11:59:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I did a test run. I think I see the pattern of which packages it marks as > manual. > E.G. It shows systemd related items as "manual". But for *MY* purposes I > would class them as "auto". That will not be a problem in practice. I'll > just do

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 05 apr 20, 11:52:32, The Wanderer wrote: > > From what I've seen, it looks as if debian-installer also flags some > packages as manually installed, during initial install of the Debian > system. I don't know which ones do and don't get that treatment. At least the packages installed

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/05/2020 01:29 PM, Marco Möller wrote: Once you have your list of packages in a text file, for each package one line, you could apply the list like this:     apt install $(< mylist.txt) Good to know that is known to work. Consider to first do a simulation run for finding problems in

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread Marco Möller
Once you have your list of packages in a text file, for each package one line, you could apply the list like this: apt install $(< mylist.txt) Consider to first do a simulation run for finding problems in the list: -s Consider to use the following flag in order to not draw in a maybe

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/05/2020 12:00 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 10:30:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. I'm setting out to do an _extremely_ custom *minimal* install of Buster. The desired inventory shall list *ONLY*

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Apr 2020 at 10:30:41 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. > I'm setting out to do an _extremely_ custom *minimal* install of Buster. > The desired inventory shall list *ONLY* top level packages. > [ E.G. if gfortran

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/05/2020 10:52 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-04-05 at 11:30, Richard Owlett wrote: I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding). I currently

Re: Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-04-05 at 11:30, Richard Owlett wrote: > I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the > first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I > wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding). > > I currently have a configuration of Stretch that

Goal: a specialized inventory of installed packages

2020-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I moved from WindowsXP when Squeeze was the current release. In the first year I did *many* installs from scratch to determine what I wanted in a final system (made much use of preseeding). I currently have a configuration of Stretch that meets most of my needs. As the installation was