Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way to make dpkg read its > data from some file other than the system's /var/lib/dpkg/status > (assuming that's the file dpkg is using to get its data; I always > assumed so).
dpkg --get-selections --root=/whever-you-have-mounted-your-dead-system may work. -- see shy jo
