At 12:05 -0400 5/13/04, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: >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 for your and Greg's replies. I install everything from source from the unstable tree, so I guess saving the results from --> fink list -i is the best solution. If I get ambitious, I might try to write a perl script to take that output, convert it to the right fink install commands to get everything installed. It shouldn't be too hard, it's just a matter of finding the time. Thanks, Carol -- ====================================================================== Carol Kankelborg | There are 10 kinds of people: those who [EMAIL PROTECTED] | understand binary and those who do not. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
