On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:52:00AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > # development because libc5 can't be upgraded to latest without removal
> > # of libc5-dev which also necessitates removal of other -dev packages
> > # like libdb1-dev and libdl1-dev if they are installed.
> > 
> > DEVPACKAGES=`dpkg --get-selections | 
> >     grep -- -dev | 
> >     grep -v deinstall | 
> >     cut -f1`
> 
> Is there any way you could mark these dev packages to be installed
> at the end, by dselect when next run? That would be a nice touch I think.

not really.  they're obsolete libc5 versions which may or may not have libc6
and/or -altdev replacement packages.

otherwise it would be trivial to pipe into dpkg --set-selections:

        ( for i in $DEVPACKAGES ; do echo "$i install" ; done ) | \
                dpkg --set-selections

craig

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