Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system"]

2008-03-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > > [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just > > > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' > > > suitabl

Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system"]

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:39:59AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > Not to be pedantic, but I'd recommend AWK for this sort of thing, e.g., > > awk '{print $2, "install"}' bak/pkg.list | dpkg --set-selections Sure, I just don't know it ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don

Re: Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system"]

2008-03-14 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 09:23:29PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > > > [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just > > > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' > > > suitabl

Install from list of packages [Was: Re: etch netinst tasksel "standard system"]

2008-03-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just > > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' > > suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections' > > I'm not sure that's necessary; if the s