meanwhile this solution is far away from clone but does the job I
needed, maybe someone else might find it useful.
It's basically what I actually needed/expected.
1. On source system gather the installed packages and source
$apt-show-versions | awk -F'[ ]' '{print $1}' | awk -F'[:/]' '{print $1
"\t" $3}' > pkg.list
I use that awkward awk since I have packages which didn't come from apt,
have no release or have been removed and $apt-show-versions lists them as:
gnupg-agent:amd64 not installed
jailkit:amd64 2.19-1 installed: No available version in archive
2. On destination I prepare my apt-preferences aswell as my sources lists
and since I use https source I'll
$apt-get update
$apt-get install apt-transport-https
$apt-get update
3. On destination I run
$./setup_list.py -i pkg.list
and wait :)
Yes, since apt-clone is in python3, this script aswell requires python,
I attached it, maybe it's not nice and I won't guarantee it works for
anyone else soo... missing License aswell so ... do whatever t f u want
with that :)
The generated pkg.list syntax is:
<packagename>\t<release>
or a translated example:
curl stretch
#!/usr/bin/python3
import getopt, os, subprocess, sys
def printhelp():
print("install_list.py -i <inputfile>")
print("install_list.py --ifile=<inputfile>")
print("")
print("inputfile should contain lines with: packagename<tab>debversion")
print("where debversion shall be stable,testing and so on")
def main(argv):
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv,"hi:",["ifile="])
except getopt.GetoptError:
printhelp()
sys.exit(2)
for opt, arg in opts:
if opt == '-h':
printhelp()
sys.exit()
elif opt in ("-i", "--ifile"):
print ("reading "+arg+"...")
lines = open(arg).read().splitlines()
installList = {}
with open(arg) as f:
content = f.readlines()
for x in content:
y = x.split("\t")
index = y[1].strip("\n")
if(index in installList):
oldvalue = installList[index]
else:
oldvalue = ""
installList[index] = "%s %s" % (oldvalue, y[0])
for k, v in installList.items():
if(k):
command = "apt-get install -y -t {0} {1}".format(k, v)
subprocess.run(command.split(), shell=False)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv[1:])
