On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:10PM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:31:40PM -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > > dpkg --get-selections > packagelist > > > > This gives me the option of doing a base install, then doing > > > > dpkg --set-selections < packagelist > > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > This would add missing packages, but does it also remove (or even better > purge) unselected packages?
Yes, and yes. > I recently posted to debian-users a similar question, when I try to make a > minimal install I choose the tasksel path and select nothing, this makes a > pretty minimal system without compilers and the sort (100+ packages). > However once I start dselect, all the "standard default" packages are > marked to be installed. People on debian-user recomended using the "_" at > the top category... I have yet to try this on a test box, but think it > would just select everything to be purged, which is not what I was looking > for... just a way to make dselect use the current package installation as > a target instead of "its default install package selection". I don't know of a way to keep dselect from doing that. You may want to try aptitude. Personally, for minimal systems, I just use apt-get. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
