Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system]

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections' I'm not sure that's necessary; if the search

Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system]

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' suitable for

Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system]

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:39:59AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: Not to be pedantic, but I'd recommend AWK for this sort of thing, e.g., awk '{print $2, install}' bak/pkg.list | dpkg --set-selections Sure, I just don't know it ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't

Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel standard system]

2008-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' suitable for