On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
>
> > > [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just
> > > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i'
> > > suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections'
> >
> > I'm not sure that's necessary; if the search pattern yields what you want
> > to install, then just replace the search subcommand with install.
>
> Let me elaborate. Doug's (Douglas Tutty) idea of a backup/reinstall
> means saving the output of 'aptitude search ~i!~M' to a file and then
> using that to select packages on a clean base install.
>
> I think it can be automated like this:
>
> aptitude search ~i!~M > pkg.lst
>
> sed -e 's/^i\ *//' -e 's/\ -\ .*$/install/' bak/pkg.list \
> | dpkg --set-selections
>
> aptitude install -y [--without-recommends]
Not to be pedantic, but I'd recommend AWK for this sort of thing, e.g.,
awk '{print $2, "install"}' bak/pkg.list | dpkg --set-selections
Ken
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