Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "David Guntner" <da...@guntner.com> >> >> I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm >> going >> to assume there's a corresponding command that produces >> "mypackagelist," >> :-) so I suppose I could make it part of the backup procedure to make >> a >> new one of those with each backup run. >> > Yup, it's: > > dpkg --get-selections > mypackagelist > > You can run it from cron, or you can have backuppc run it before > performing a backup. > > Ralf has a good point about backing up everything possible, just in case. > But even if you do back up your entire system, there's no harm in backing > up your package list like this -- just in case.
Yup. Pretty much what I'm going for. :-)
--Dave
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