On May 13, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote:
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 09:46:19AM -0600, Carol Kankelborg wrote:
} Since my Fink installation takes up so much space and is fairly
} re-creatable it doesn't make much sense to back it up when I back-up
} my other data. However, I don't want to have to remember what
} packages I had installed to recreate my Fink installation. Is there
} some minimal set of files (like a list of what Fink has installed) I
} can back-up that will allow me to recreate what I have in the event of
} a crash?
Since Fink is based on Debian, I believe that you can do that same thing
that I would do under Debian: dpkg --get-selections \* will produce a
list of all of the packages you have ever had installed and their status
(install, remove, purge). You can save this list, then redirect it into
dpkg --set-selections to put it back. That will tell dpkg what should be
installed, but you will need to run apt-get dselect-upgrade to make it
happen. You should probably run fink update-all for good measure after
that. I am not 100% certain that this will automatically rebuild
everything it should, but I am pretty certain that the list you back up
will be complete if you wind up needing to install package by hand.
You'd most likely have to reinstall by hand those packages that are only available from the source distribution.
} Is it safe to assume all the packages keep any user setup data in the } User's home directory? If not, where might they keep that data?
Yes, it's safe to assume that.
} Thanks, Carol -- --Greg
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