Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Kjetil Ødegaard
* Damon Muller | | Quoth Colin Watson, | > You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and | 'dpkg | > --set-selections' on the new one. | | I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not | really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it | o

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Colin Watson, > You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg > --set-selections' on the new one. I know this is a bit of a clueless newbie question (which I'm not really). I've seen this advice quite a few times, and even tried it once or twice myself without muc

Re: Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Green) wrote: >Just a quick Dselect question. > >I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has >errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do >a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. > >Is there a way

Dselect question - mirroring packages on new box

2000-02-21 Thread Anthony Green
Hello, Just a quick Dselect question. I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. Is there a way to copy the exact package list of what I