On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:32:22AM -0500, Ryan McLean wrote: > Hello, > > I apologize in advance if this isn't the correct place for this question. > I plan on using debian on many many systems, and I would like to know how to > setup a custom "tag" file. So when I install via apt, all the packages that > I want selected are already selected, and everything else is purged. Kind > of like how on the default install you can choose a 'profile' to install by > (ie: development, X environment, etc). Thanks in advance!
Apologize accept because debian-mentors is for new developpers, not newbies. For your question, dpkg --get-selections > packages.list dpkg --set-selections < packages.list from dpkg --help: Usage: [...] dpkg --get-selections [<pattern> ...] get list of selections to stdout dpkg --set-selections set package selections from stdin [...] > > - Ryan > > /* Ryan McLean > * Honesty.com > * Network/Systems Administrator > * http://www.honesty.com > */ > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fabien Ninoles Chevalier servant de la Dame Catherine des Rosiers aka Corbeau aka le Veneur Gris Debian GNU/Linux maintainer E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://www.tzone.org/~fabien RSA PGP KEY [E3723845]: 1C C1 4F A6 EE E5 4D 99 4F 80 2D 2D 1F 85 C1 70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
