Hi, I'm currently thinking about performing some daily backups of my data. Since all programs can be easily installed throw apt I was thinking about only backing up the database of installed programs. After googling I discovered the "dpkg --get-selections" command. But after running it I noticed something strange about the list. Since I think (maybe wrongly) that dselect is more related with dpkg than aptitude (the program I use to install new packages) I decided to run it to check how the package list was. I saw then that there were some packages selected for installation that weren't selected in aptitude. So I thought "I didn't run this for a long while now, maybe if I do an update.....", and so I did. But everything was the same. Then something strange happened. I ran "aptitude update" and the usually fast update process surprised me with a slow, CPU eating process after the line:
"Reading extended state information..." WTF did dselect to make aptitude SO damn slow!? Thanks to anyone who can enlight me in this matter... --- Paladin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
