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 [<pattern> ...] 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.
