On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:39:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a Debian system off a hard drive that will no longer boot, not even > from disc. It's copied entirely onto my current system under > /usr/local/old > > Is there any way of reading the package selections off of it there (by > running a command, as opposed to actually looking at all the .prerm and > .postinst files, and manually selecting each?) and applying them to the > current system? >
According to doc, I think 'dpkg --root=/usr/local/old --get-selections | dpkg --set-selections' should do just what you want. -Lex
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