> > Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X.
> > If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things go
> > wrong and I restore my backup - how do I put package
> > mabager back on track ...?
> >
> > Or, do I backup just /home and leave all other stuff
> > in the Hand Of God and Package Manager ...?
>
> And before backup do something like
> dpkg --get-selections >/home/backup/packagelist
> (and maybe backup /etc too...?)
>
The description of those options of dpkg is short of details.
So ... do those --get-selections and --set-selections indeed
serve to put the package-manager's database back the way it
ought to be ( given that I got the right selection
to start with ) ?
Juha Mäkinen
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