On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:26:12PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But I think I would like to have a record of what packages were > actually installed. So I'm thinking of writing a script, to be run > nightly, that puts a fresh copy of my selections in /etc/apt, e.g. > > # dpkg --get-selections >/etc/apt/selections
Many of those packages will have been installed automatically by your package manager. If you use aptitude, you only need to record the packages which you manually installed: aptitude search `~i!~M' You can then install them, then aptitude will automatically install what is needed by them. I wouldn't put my backup info in /etc/apt. Most of what is in /etc/ (just like the rest of the file system) is managed by packages which are managed by apt. You may find that what you put in /etc/apt gets changed (I don't know, but I wouldn't risk it). I keep my backups in /var/local/backup. Your remote script can run a local script to create the backups, then rsync what you want to the remote (or any other) box. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
