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RE: easy selection of debian packages?!



	Just found the following at this month's debian-user list...

Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra
Amdocs Brasil Ltda

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	E.L. Meijer (Eric) [SMTP:tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 02, 1998 12:06 PM
> To:	debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:	Re: problems+suggestions
> 
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be nice if a configuration of all installed packages could
> be
> > saved in some data file that you could put on a disk and whenever you
> want
> > to install a new machine or go back to this good configuration you just
> > load the data-file into dselect or whatever program that gets/installs
> > packages. Some different default configs could also be shipped with
> > the dist to be used by new debian people.
> > 
> > Maybe this is already possible? Tell me please!
> 
> You can do this with
> 
> $ dpkg --get-selections > file
> 
> to record the settings, and
> 
> $ dpkg --set-selections < file
> 
> to get the setting from the file.  Then start dselect and skip the
> selection step.
> 
> HTH,
> Eric
> 
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