On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> stan wrote: > > How cna I do this? > > > > The machine I want to match is a "testting" machine, that I quit updating > > about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. > > > > Will this ne a problem? > > > > On source machine: > > dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt > > On destination machine: > > (make sure sources.list is the same) > apt-get update > dpkg --set-selections <selections.txt > apt-get upgrade > > -Roberto > Hi Debianista, I was looking at various posts about recreating a debian install from the 'get selections'. But suppose you want to also use the same /etc for the packacges. (eg apache setup, sendmail config,...). Would you just make the base system, use 'set selection', update and them bulk copy over the current /etc dir? -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]