Re: backing up packages

2001-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, the above command doesn't work too well. i get a lot of these errors: -- Creating control files -- Copying files -- Building package dpkg-deb: building package `zlib1g' in `./zlib1g_1.1.3-5_i386.deb'. -- Cleaning up dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in

backing up packages

2001-04-30 Thread aphro
hi. i am interested in doing something along the lines of: dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' | dpkg-repack to get debs of all of the existing software. some of it (less then 5 packages) are 3rd party, and i want to back up what EXACTLY is on the system as opposed to download the packages