On 2011-03-09 20:40 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > It is not a great problem, but I wondered, why non-installed packages > appeared > as to be installed.
Because they have been selected for installation (dselect sometimes "helpfully" does that automatically when you run it as root). > When I googled, most sites are pointing to version a) and > some to b). The correct version is b) --> dpkg --get-selections > mylist.txt, > (if you want, like me, ONLY installed packages). Maybe the manual should be > improved, to make it clear? I think the manual is clear enough, but there is one caveat: with older dpkg versions (prior to version 1.15.4), "dpkg --get-selections '*'" would even print packages that are purged and _not_ marked for installation. This could be used to purge installed packages on the target system where you feed the list to "dpkg --set-selections". Since this is no longer possible, you should run "dpkg --clear-selections" prior to "dpkg --set-selections" to replicate an installation on another computer. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874o7cgjbs....@turtle.gmx.de
