Quoting Christian Perrier: > I think that Marcus wants to install a system with exactly the same > packages than another system. > > Something like "dpkg --get-selections" on the source system and then > automate "dpkg --set-selections" on the target system. > > That should be feasible with preseed/late_command (to be double > checked...this might have changed in etchh and it's a logn time since > I did preseeded installs). The list of packaged coul dbe hosted on a > network place and wgetted to the target system by the > preseed/late_command.
Hi again. Thats exactly what I want to do, except the packages are located on the installation cd-rom. There should be an easy way to pipe a complete package selection to preseed, instead of hacking late_commands. And there is already a variable called: "pkgsel/include. The value of this parameter can be either comma-separated or space-separated, so you can also use it easily on the kernel command line." so why not allow to link it to a selections file instead of listing each package one-by-one. Best Regards Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
