On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I had been a devoted Slackware fan, trying Debian convinced me > that it is far superior a distribution. However, in the process of > installing Debian 1.3.1 at least 15 times (several computers and > several different plans on how to install them all) it occurred to me > that two features in `dselect` would be WONDERFUL!!! > > 1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to > a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical > installations.
dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections > 2) Once all packages are selected, don't skip packages that are > deselected, just ignore them. Dselect for ftp install works this > way, why can't the disk based dselect as well? It looks like much > time is spent "skipping" packages that do not need to be > installed. Unfortunatly, that is because of the way dselect runs dpkg (dpkg -iGROBE), which then goes through the directorys and checks every package. I've solved the problem by mounting my CD info ftpable space and using dpkg-ftp. The package dpkg-mountable will also provide a method that doesn't do this. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
