Craig Sanders writes ("lots of dpkg ideas for discussion (was Re: GCC frepo
(continue))"):
...
> if dpkg were to keep a list of all selected files and a list of
> pathnames to available deb files, then it could simply iterate through
> the list of selected packages.
The information is already in dpkg's status areas.
If you take the first word from each Status: line in
/var/lib/dpkg/status and copy it to the corresponding place on another
machine you'll have copied the selectedness or otherwise of all the
packages.
Ian.
(Wild crossposting and CCs removed.)
