Micah Anderson wrote (28 Aug 2009 15:04:34 GMT) : > * intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> [2009-08-28 09:56-0400]: >> I am rather in favor of "aptitude search '~i'" to get the best of both >> worlds: the whole installed packages list *and* the knowledge wether >> a given package has been automatically installed.
> Can either of these be fed back to bring a system's package state back > to what it was originally? This is the purpose of --get-selections (with > the corresponding --set-selections). > Also, what happens if a user doesn't use aptitude at all, and uses > apt-get instead? Will there be any useful restore information using > these aptitude methods? The aptitude-create-state-bundle and aptitude-run-state-bundle commands pair may be what we need: they are able to backup and restore aptitude's, apt's and dpkg's states to/from a compressed archive. The output file, though, can be quite huge: 142 MB on my laptop (weird setup with three sets of Debian repositories / apt caches). I don't think this is a problem, but still... Any thoughts on this? Bye, -- intrigeri <intrig...@boum.org> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr-fingerprint.asc | We're dreaming of something else. | Something more clandestine, something happier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
