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RE: easy selection of debian packages?!



I don't have a Debian system near me right now, but the option you
are looking for are something like "--set-available" and "--get-available",
look for them in the output of "dpkg --help".

HPH.

--Amos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuvia beker [mailto:becket@cc.huji.ac.il]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 4:42 AM
> To: ILUG
> Cc: Tuvik Beker; Amos Shapira
> Subject: easy selection of debian packages?!
> 
> 
> Yet another question, this time to the debian gurus amongst you lot.
> It is well-known that debian weakest point is the terrible 
> interface of
> dselect. While there is an ongoing development effort of substitutes
> (deity, apt-*), these are not yet mature enough, in my opinion.
> However, something like RedHat's 'kickstart' installation option (or
> slackware's good old tag files) must surely be available. 
> What I mean is
> that once you have made the selection of packages to install 
> on one given
> system, it shouldn't be too difficult to pass the same 
> selection to other
> systems you want to install.
> 
> The only problem is I have no idea how to do it on debian...
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Tuvik
> 
>