Andreas Hatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does anybody know of a good way of using an old /var/lib/dpkg/status >file to quickly reinstall debian. I would like to be able to do this to >reduce the amount of time it takes me to re-build a machine after an >attack or for installing all the same packages as another web server >instead of choosing all packages manually. > >I have tried the following (rather clumsy) method: > ># grep -B1 -e "install ok" /var/lib/dpkg/status > \|grep "Package:" |cut -d" " -f2 > installed.packages ># apt-get install `cat installed.packages` > >This does not work as well as I first thought. plenty of "broken >packages" > >This is a functionality of apt-get that would come in very handy I >think.
You're better off using 'dpkg --get-selections > selections', and then later 'dpkg --set-selections < selections; dselect install'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
