> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:13:49 -0500 <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:48:54 -0900 <gomadtr...@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Would be nice to have a 'snapshot' feature to revert to. I have used
> >> aptitude
> >> (dselect) to get close to a standard install, base + standard is not that
> >> many
> >> packages, no X.
> >>
> >
> > Yes I agree it would be a very handy feature. What is the debian-user
> > mailing list members thoughts on creating a feature request for such a
> > feature.
> >
>
> I see no purpose, when you can do this at any time:
> COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | grep ^i | \
> cut -c4-44 > installed.packages.`date +"%Y%M%d-%H%m"`
>
> Since that's obviously a pain to write, put it in an alias.
>
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> to moral, physical and intellectual progress.
>
>
> --
Ron,
How would you revert your system to using only the packages mentioned in your
snapshot?
Your output looks identical to "dpkg--get-selections" without the word install
on each line.
-M
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