Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 dec 13, 17:51:11, Brad Alexander wrote: One point I would like to make is that it is probably not a bad idea to capture this from all of your machines as a starting point to have a pool of machine types. For instance, being a believer in bastion hosts, I have a separate firewall,

Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
I have had another failed upgrade. Before I tried to upgrade, I ran dpkg --get-selections and saved the result in a file. I am obviously going to have to install Wheezy from scratch. Is there any way I can make use of Squeeze's package list to give the owner of the box the same

Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-03 Thread Neal Murphy
On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 05:26:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: I have had another failed upgrade. Before I tried to upgrade, I ran dpkg --get-selections and saved the result in a file. I am obviously going to have to install Wheezy from scratch. Is there any way I can make use of Squeeze's

Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.eduwrote: On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 05:26:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: I have had another failed upgrade. Before I tried to upgrade, I ran dpkg --get-selections and saved the result in a file. I am obviously going to have

Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 December 2013 22:51:11 Brad Alexander wrote: On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.eduwrote: On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 05:26:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: I have had another failed upgrade. Before I tried to upgrade, I ran dpkg --get-selections