Digby Tarvin wrote:
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:13:15PM +0200, Christoph Bier wrote:
Adam Black schrieb am 02.05.2006 17:44:
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?
# on your desktop:
dpkg --get-selections > my-selections.txt
# copy my-selections.txt to your laptop
# on your laptop:
dpkg --set-selections < my-selections.txt
apt-get dselect-upgrade
Useful to know...
I assume that any modifications to the /etc/apt/sources.list file would
need to be copied across to the target system before the upgrade?
I wonder what complications could arise if the two machines are running
different versions of Debian - I am thinking of my i86 Etch install
on my notebook vs the ARM system on my iPAQ.
Regards,
DigbyT
I run amd64 and i386 ports with apt-cacher. It just means that any
packages that are architecture independent (*all.deb) only need to be
downloaded once. Others will have to be downloaded for each machine.
You may run into trouble if a package is available in one arch but not
another when trying the dpkg --set-selections step above.
HTH
Wackojacko
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