Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'
On 9/12/20 12:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those that would otherwise have been automatically installed. You can obtain a list of automatically installed packages with apt-mark(1): $ apt-mark showauto > automatically-installed-packages Then, on the replicated system where you presumably had used "dpkg --set-selections" to install the same set of packages: # apt-mark auto $(cat automatically-installed-packages) HTH, Sven Thank you. That is a perfectly acceptable solution to the issue. Marc
Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'
I do this job using aptitude instead apt: /usr/bin/aptitude search '~i !~M' -F '%p' --disable-columns Toni Mas Missatge de Sven Joachim del dia ds., 12 de set. 2020 a les 9:29: > > On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include > > automatically installed packages? > > No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an > apt concept. > > > Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those > > that would otherwise have been automatically installed. > > You can obtain a list of automatically installed packages with > apt-mark(1): > > $ apt-mark showauto > automatically-installed-packages > > Then, on the replicated system where you presumably had used > "dpkg --set-selections" to install the same set of packages: > > # apt-mark auto $(cat automatically-installed-packages) > > HTH, > Sven >
Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'
On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include > automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. > Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those > that would otherwise have been automatically installed. You can obtain a list of automatically installed packages with apt-mark(1): $ apt-mark showauto > automatically-installed-packages Then, on the replicated system where you presumably had used "dpkg --set-selections" to install the same set of packages: # apt-mark auto $(cat automatically-installed-packages) HTH, Sven
Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'
Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages? Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those that would otherwise have been automatically installed. Marc
