On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:08, Jochen Daum wrote: > Hi! > > > on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:26:46PM +1300, Jochen Daum > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I have a debian woody machine which I installed via FTP. > > > > > > I would like to dump the names of all installed packages > > into a file, > > > so that I can install them automatically with dpkg. > > > > > > I tried > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections > > > > > > but the file doesn't contain any package versions? Can I > > include that > > > as well? > > > > While you can, it doesn't do you much good. > > > > APT installs the latest available version of a package > > (subject to your > > preferred release and pinning options). > > Well, I run unstable at home, and had to fix some stuff every time I > installed it (3 times). I know that I can expect this from unstable, > buts thats why I'm looking for some tricks.
A reeeeealy handy utility: $ apt-cache show apt-show-versions Package: apt-show-versions Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 22 Maintainer: Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.04 Depends: perl | perl-5.005 | perl-5.004, apt Filename: pool/main/a/apt-show-versions/apt-show-versions_0.04_all.deb Size: 10682 MD5sum: 3bdcad52f9796d57b03cd8674e00f575 Description: Lists available package versions with distribution apt-show-versions parses the dpkg status file and the APT lists for the installed and available package versions and distribution and shows upgrade options within the specific distribution of the selected package. . This is really useful if you have a mixed stable/testing environment and want to list all packages which are from testing and can be upgraded in testing. My system's packages list is attached, as generated by $ apt-show-versions | sort| gzip > package.versions.txt.gz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals
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