Adam Black wrote: > Hi > > I am running a P4 desktop and a centrino notebook with Debian sid and > I wanted to know what the best way is to keep the same set of packages > installed on both machines. For the initial setup of the laptop, can > I install a base system and then rsync /usr and /var/lib/dpkg from the > desktop, or is there a different way that is better? > > thanks > adam >
rsync is not the way to go. That would cause problems because you will end up with files that dpkg doesn't even know are there. You want something like `dpkg --get-selections` and `dpkg --set-selections` and probably apt-proxy or apt-cacher while you are at it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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