On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sb, 15 ian 11, 19:42:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> Actually this only helps cleaning the system of unneeded packages, but >> still leaves me with a lot of packages not marked auto, so I had to >> apply Javier's hack after all. > > Ok, this looks like the best version so far: > > Backup: > aptitude --disable-columns -F %p search '~i!~M' > $PKG_LIST > (in case you're wondering, my list currently has 177 packages) > > Restore (as root): > aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false markauto ~i > aptitude -o Aptitude::Delete-Unused=false unmarkauto $(cat $PKG_LIST | tr > "\n" " ") > aptitude keep-all > > I still don't understand why 'Delete-Unused=false' is necessary with > 'unmarkauto' and an additional 'keep-all' is needed, but at least it > works. When you invoke aptitude unmarkauto ... aptitude has all your packages with auto mark, so aptitude will want to delete these unused packages *before* it start with your operation (unmarkauto in this case). I think it make sense
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