Hi, i wrote: > > Do we have a feature to get a list of installed packages and to later > > use it for re-installation ?
Dan Ritter wrote: > Yes. dpkg --get-selections and its reverse, dpkg --set-selections Ahum. 2876 packages reported as installed. An ever growing number with each release, i assume. My Sid VM for packaging has 2678. But 331 are marked "deinstall" in contrast to only one on the host. (Why did my Sid ever have yum ?) > RAID for hardware reliability. Version control and/or snapshots for > minor error correction. Backups for major issues. Households > don't usually need to go further than that. Hey. That's enough for a medium sized company. :)) I wrote: > > I normally need weeks to get everything installed on my next machine. Michael Howard wrote: > Well then it's not pristine, which is what the OP wanted. Indeed. My statement was more meant as excuse why i did not know about a thing like dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections. I simply never have a pristine state worth restoring. An installation is complete when it does what i need. But then it cannot be considered pristine any more. (Nevertheless i care to have some backup Blu-rays of the non-volatile system files besides my user data backups.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
