On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:33:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/17/08 22:51, Carl Johnson wrote: > >"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@vianet.ca> writes:
> >I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the > >best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a single item, so this > >isn't a problem in those cases. > > In the backup script: > dpkg --get-selections > pkgs.installed.txt > > In the restore script: > dpkg --set-selections < pkgs.installed.txt Don't you then lose all the manaul/automatic distinction in aptitude? Wouldn't they all show up as manually installed? It would then take a lot of work to go through the list and mark stuff accordingly. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
