In <20090424055608.gb20...@big.lan.gnu>, Paul E Condon wrote: >In the aptitude-create-state-bundle description, they give a list of > exactly what they (the documenters of the aptitude program no less) > believe to be the sum total of what is needed to recreate a living apt > system. This list is: > > $HOME/.aptitude > /var/lib/aptitude > /var/lib/apt > /var/cache/apt/*.bin > /etc/apt > /var/lib/dpkg/status > >It is not a very long list, but it does include a lot more than merely >a list of installed packages, and, particularly significant for this >thread, it does not include a copy of the output from running >--get-selections.
I'm pretty sure dpkg --get-selections is just (part of) the data in /var/lib/dpkg/status, in a different format. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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