On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:31:40PM -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 22:32, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > > > The other thing I do is to maintain a package list of machines I build. > It for instance, I have selection of workstation packagelists, laptop, > mailserver, firewall and the like. In essence, I do a > > dpkg --get-selections > packagelist > > This gives me the option of doing a base install, then doing > > dpkg --set-selections < packagelist > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > in lieu of FAI. Putting the packagelist, drive partitioning information, > and copies of tweaked datafiles onto a CD (like the woody minicd), would > allow you to replicate machines relatively quickly. >
This would add missing packages, but does it also remove (or even better purge) unselected packages? I recently posted to debian-users a similar question, when I try to make a minimal install I choose the tasksel path and select nothing, this makes a pretty minimal system without compilers and the sort (100+ packages). However once I start dselect, all the "standard default" packages are marked to be installed. People on debian-user recomended using the "_" at the top category... I have yet to try this on a test box, but think it would just select everything to be purged, which is not what I was looking for... just a way to make dselect use the current package installation as a target instead of "its default install package selection". donfede -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
