On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:58:36 +0100 Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:50:07AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > Please see my reply to this. > > > "dpkg --get-selections >& /file/to/output.txt" > > There is no need to shunt stderr as well, since if anything is > written to it (unlikely), it will taint the file. True. Just a (potentially bad) habit I've gotten into for piping output from GUI stuff into a text file. > > "cat /file/to/output.txt | dpkg --set-selections" > > > > "apt-get upgrade" > > No, you *must* do: apt-get dselect-upgrade. Yep, thanks for the correction. Looks like I should have done "man apt-get" in addition to recommending "man dpkg". :-) > > (man dpkg for more information.) Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #29: Do you remember when you only had to pay for Windows when *you* were the one that broke them?
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