Osamu Aoki, 2001-Nov-20 20:50 -0800: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:59:54PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > basically. You should only set selections on a fresh install. > > Otherwise you have packages from set A the other machine is set B and > > thus machine A gets the union of the set (i.e. more packages than B > > and a chance at conflicting packages). > > True if you do it as described without pattern match. > > What about using 'dpkg --get-selections \* >> packages' > > Then you get all packages listed (non-installed packages as "purge") > Thus you will get the exact same setting. (someone mentioned on this > list) Bloating system can be avoided by this, I think. > > > The package list lists packages that have been removed but not purged, > > on hold, set for purge but not purged, attempted to install and stuck, > > as well as simply installed. You should probably change all holds to > > installs, purge the packages marked deinstalled, fix any half > > installed packages and then save the output. > I did not understand this. Fixing half installed sounds good to me :-)
Thanks alot. I look forward to testing this out. And yes, this is for installing a new system that will be a s/w duplicate, and I figure this will shave a little time off the process. thanks, jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User