Re: dselect Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

[Frankie]

Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> 
> If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be to
> save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the selection on a
> new system so I don't have to do it everytime.  Maybe this feature is already
> there and I don't know about it...
> 
> Wayne
> 

you want to use dpkg --get-selections > file , dpkg --set-selections <
file

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Re: dselect Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

[David B. Teague]

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote:

> If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be
> to save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the
> selection on a new system so I don't have to do it everytime.  Maybe
> this feature is already there and I don't know about it... 

Wayne

>From dpkg --help:

dpkg --get-selections [ ...]   get list of selections to stdout
dpkg --set-selections   set package selections from stdin

I use it like this:

dpkg --get-selections >  my_selections
dpkg --set-selections < my_selections

--David Teague
Debian GNU/Linux: Because software should not be expected to crash,
  and reboots are for hardware and kernel upgrades.

dselect Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

[Wayne Cuddy]

If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be to
save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the selection on a
new system so I don't have to do it everytime.  Maybe this feature is already
there and I don't know about it...

Wayne

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Randy Edwards wrote:

> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 06:46:05 -0500
> From: Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Debian-Users 
> Subject: Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
> Resent-Date: 1 Mar 1999 17:29:34 -
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> > of them becoming developers, Deb's weaknesses such as the install
> > problems will be addressed as well (am I the only one who likes
> > dselect? :-) ).
> 
>While dselect does have an odd interface, I definitely like it.  I can see
> the original author's motive for force-feeding help screens, which IMHO is the
> oddest part of it.
> 
>But I've got the sequence of "dselect" ENTER SPACE-BAR "/" 
> ENTER down pat! :-)
> 
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