On Jan 8, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:42:53, David Sastre wrote: >> On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >>> I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I >>> don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed on the old >>> PATA drive. I can, though, plug it in and read it as a data drive. >>> >>> So where on that drive can I find the list of installed packages? >> >> You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to >> request that (or any other) info: >> >> # dpkg -l > list.of.packages.txt >> >> The result is a much smaller file: >> >> # dpkg -l > list > > If you can/want to use dpkg better use --get-selections because the > output can be fed to --set-selections ;)
Without doing a chroot (while I know the mobo on the old system crashed, I'm beginning to suspect drive/OS issues), I could use a few utils like grep and awk to change a list from /var/lib/dpkg/status if I needed to, couldn't I? Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/58ac1d4b-f02c-475d-8fff-025594a20...@halblog.com
