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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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