-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to install all the packages which I presently have in a box with Squeeze.
In section 2.7.16 of Aoki Osamu San's excellent Debian Reference, titled "Recording and copying system configuration" appears the following: You can make a local copy of the package and debconf selection states by the following. # dpkg --get-selections '*' > selection.dpkg # debconf-get-selections > selection.debconf Here, "*" makes "selection.dpkg" to include package entries for "purge" too. You can transfer these 2 files to another computer, and install there with the following. # dselect update # debconf-set-selections < myselection.debconf # dpkg --set-selections < myselection.dpkg # apt-get -u select-upgrade # or dselect install Will this command sequence generally work when the "from" box has Squeeze and the "to" box has Wheezy? Specifically, will the packages installed in the Wheezy box having the same names as the ones in the Squeeze box be the Wheezy versions rather than the Squeeze versions? I would assume that when the second group of commands is run any packages or config files already in the Wheezy box which are later versions of than those in the Squeeze box would be left alone. Also it would appear that where there are no exact equivalents in the two boxes the Squeeze versions would be installed if the dependency situation allowed it; otherwise they would not be. To know what happened when the second group of commands is run can a log file be thereby created for that purpose? Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJ1QmEACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeOOwCfYDUF8JAHENU93dqNOnTvonU/ 8aQAn2BFrHhc9Ptn4WSrp3ctcSBERpFv =is3E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/52754261.1090...@teksavvy.com
