On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:00:44AM +0300, Dave Roi wrote: > Upon second thought, It seems very logical that a "Save full state" file > will contain the same installation tags as the original (Manually installed > as opposed to a dependency). > I don't know this for certain but I believe automatic dependency deletion > should still work on the target machine. > > Just seems very logical to me. > Anyways, checking this shouldn't be hard. > > Anyways, I still recommend using ghost to copy machines instead of these > mass apt-get methods. > Ghost gives you the option of doing other customizations besides the package > list, such as editing configuration files, changing themes, gconf settings, > aliases etc... > Linux also has the advantage that it doesn't require a different image file > for each different hardware type. > Just make sure the hard drive you create the image on is the smallest of all > the target hard drives.
But then you don't know what those customizations are, and can't reproduce them when you need to do a small change. E.g. install the same configuration in ain a few monthes. Recall that the D-I system already install security updates at system install time, as they use apt to install packages. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux