On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > 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. > > This is a question that appears on the list every so often. People > want to be able to do this. But unfortunately it isn't easy to do > well in practice. It is easy do sloppily. But hard to do well. And > so there are many proposed solutions but none of them work well. > >> # dpkg --get-selections '*' > selection.dpkg >> # debconf-get-selections > selection.debconf >> ... >> 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 > > Typo there: s/select-upgrade/dselect-upgrade/ > > That is definitely the old venerable way of doing this on Debian from > a decade of years ago. When working on the same version of Debian it > even worked relatively well. Then. But now we have extended_states > in APT supporting 'apt-get autoremove'. With regards to that the > above no longer works well. For one problem it completely breaks the > extended_states paradigm. > > The extended_states paradigm is to track for each package whether it > was installed manually or installed as a dependency of another > package. If you install foo and foo depends upon libfoo then foo is > marked as manual and libfoo is marked as automatic. > > With the above get-selections, set-selections method then everything > is set to manually installed. So if you do this then you must also > take into consideration the extended states and handle it somehow.
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