Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-02 Thread Steve Hsieh
I don't think there is a way to do both simultaenously, but what you can do is first setup one system the way you want. Then use 'dpkg --get-selections > file' and save the output to a file. Then on the other machine, use 'dpkg --set-selections < file' to set all the same packages installed on th

Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-02 Thread Bruce Perens
There are flags to dpkg to make it export the list of selected packages and then re-import it. Try "dpkg --get-selections > selection_list", and then "dpkg --set-selections < selection_list" on another workstation. This will do your package selection, but will _not_ install the packages or answer i

Re: How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-02 Thread Adam Shand
> I have a bunch of PC's (actually two :-)) running Debian > Linux. However, I want them to be exactly the same but dont want to > run dselect on both machines, but would rather have any > installations/removals/configs/etc affect both machines simultaneously. I believe that there is a debian pack

How to maintain a network of workstations via dselect?

1997-11-01 Thread Terrence Brannon
I have a bunch of PC's (actually two :-)) running Debian Linux. However, I want them to be exactly the same but dont want to run dselect on both machines, but would rather have any installations/removals/configs/etc affect both machines simultaneously. Is this possible? If not, shouldn't it be?