That partially worked. Problem is, it only installed those packages with
'Priority: required'. I suppose I can change all priorities to 'required',
since I'll be restoring the original 'status' file - is there any good
reason not to do that?
Mark.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Monday, June 14, 1999 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: Can I get the .deb files that I currently have installed.
|Would this do it?
|
|# cd /var/lib/dpkg
|# mv status status.tmp
|# cat status.tmp | sed '/^Status:/s/installed/not-installed/' > status
|# apt-get -d dist-upgrade
|# mv status.tmp status
|
|Basically, this fakes apt-get into thinking that none of the packages
|that should be installed are installed, then tells apt-get to get every
|package in the distribution without installing it (-d means download
|only). The .deb files should end up somewhere in /var/cache/apt,
|I think.
|
|I didn't actually try this myself, but it looks believable.
|
|Marc
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| -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
|
|
|>>> "Mark Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/14 12:07 PM >>>
|I want to be able to replicate my current Debian installation, by
collecting
|all of the .deb files that I currently have installed. 'dselect' deleted
|all of the .deb's that it installed. I know how to get the names of the
|installed packages (dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'), but I can figure out how
to
|translate that into a filename that I can ftp from debian.org. When I look
|in the /var/lib/dpkg/available file, the 'Filename:' field is missing for
|all the installed packages. Is there some way to automatically collect all
|the .deb's that match my current installation?
|
|Mark.
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