This brings up another point -- why can't dselect list the order in which deb files should be installed for me? Or can it and I just don't know? Right now, when you use dselect, it seems to just try to install packages in alphabetical-recursive order (which is why I run into catch-22 problems such as not being able to install ghostview because gs-aladdin is not installed, but not installing gs-aladdin because ghostview failed to configure).
If I could get it to generate a script that issues dpkg -iOEGB <deb files> in the right order without me having to manually construct such a tree as you suggest below, that would be a large step in the right direction. On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > > just off the top of my head, but how about using deselect to select the > > packages, then replacing /var/lib/dpkg/status on the other machines with > > this file from the master? Then master downloads the files by ftp (or > > whatever), and the others get their files from master? > > This works for me. I often have to do this when playing with the bo > packages. You could easily put it in a script with proper checking of > dpkg exit() codes. > > 1) nfs is used (/mirrors/debian is a symlink to /mnt/dx2/mirrors/debian) > 2) use dselect or view Packages to get dependencies > 3) something like this: > cd /mirrors/debian/bo/libs > dpkg -i neededlib1* > dpkg -i neededlib2* > cd ../admin > dpkg -i wantedapp*
