Dale E Martin, Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:26:11AM -0500: > (No need to Cc me, btw.) > > > If I did that, I would get whatever was current on whatever apt sources I > was using. For example, download.kde.org has a newer version of KDE 3 than > I have on the golden machine. I've hand backported a bunch of stuff (like > kopete) that won't necessarily work with a newer KDE. (My experience is > that it won't work, in fact.) Hence my thought about using "dpkg-repack" > to regenerate what the golden machine has back into packages for use on the > other machines to use. Then a good old-fashioned "dpkg --install *.deb" or > "dpkg -iGROEB" to either install everything or upgrade everything from > stable. >
How we solve this problem: We have a local archive of backported packages and homegrown packages, and our sources.list has this archive as well as woody. apt/preferences is configured appropriately. We use equivs to build a metapackage which has all of the correct version information for the debs (which dpkg --get-selections does not give you). grep-dctrl is your friend. We then install the metapackage on a freshly fai'ed machine and, viola! I think Progeny has commerical tools/support for doing this kind of thing. g
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