On 04/11/13 14:50, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:56:27AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 11/4/2013 7:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:20:17PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: >>>> 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. >>> >>> Why can't you just upgrade? >>> IOW, unlikely that you'll get any help with your "jump through the >>> hoops" method. >>> >> >> Maybe because it's a new box so there's nothing to upgrade? >> >> I'm looking for the same information - for the same reason. > > What information for what reason? If you mean to take a selection of > installed packages from a Squeeze box (unfortunate name) and apply some > sort of dpkg --get-selections/dpkg --set-selections onto a Wheezy box > then I would advise against it. > > Who knows what gruels are waiting in the dark. > > I may be wrong, and it is a supported method, but if it coughs at some > point, I'd hate to be the one to (help) clean up the mess. > > Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and > then install the top level packages you require. > > Or install Squeeze on the new box do the dpkg --get-selections/dpkg > --set-selections thing, THEN upgrade to Wheezy. > > Anyone else have any better ideas? >
I asked the self-same question here back in july: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/07/msg00138.html I got some help/advice, but for various reasons, which I can't remember, it was all broken, and didn't work... I gave up; cleaning up the mess consisted of reformatting, and redoing a netinstall. I then installed/removed packages manually. TBH, it didn't take too much effort, and certainly wasn't worth the effort trying to "JTTH" ;) It would seem that this is raised often enough that it might be worth developing a method to support this, but it would need a lot more than my flimsy understanding of the debian packaging system to do this. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England | -- 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/5277b7b3.4090...@vanderhoff.org
