On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:07:59 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:16:02 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > on first sytsem: > > > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > > > on new base install: > > > > copy over selections.txt > > > > dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt > > > > dselect update > > > > apt-get dselect-upgrade > > > > > > This is one of the prefered way but debian doesn't afaik have a way to > > > include such info as your currect configurations. So this will install > > > the packages but then you have to answer the debconf questions and then > > > do the final configurations to files in /etc or elsewhere. > > > > The debconf settings can be transferred with > > > > debconf-get-selections (from package debconf-utils) > > > > and > > > > debconf-set-selections (from package debconf itself) > > > My understanding of Debconf is that they represent the initial setting > of a package. How would you make them take affect for the packages? > Would you: > old% dpkg --get-selection > selections.txt > old% debconf-get-selections > debconf-selections.txt > new% dpkg --set-selections > selections.txt > new% dselect update > new% apt-get dselect-upgrade > new% debconf-set-selections < debconf-selections.txt > new% dpkg-reconfigure --all > > any comments appreciated :-)
The Debian Reference suggests this procedure: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-record (I was in a hurry when I wrote the other mail and I could not find the relevant section quickly enough then.) -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
