On Thu, May 28, 2020, 7:41 AM Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:15:41PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > There is no pristine state for Debian. > > > > There should be, even if this "pristine state" is but a list of packages > > at the moment of the first boot. > > But that set is NOT the same for everyone. The installer selects > some based on the hardware that it discovers during the installation, > and you select some in the task selection menu. Also, there are several > different installer images, including some that are meant to be used as > live, and some that have non-free firmware packages. > > If *you*, the one person on the planet who wants this, would like to > achieve your goal, what you can do is get a snapshot of *your* packages > immediately after the installation, by running > > dpkg --get-selections > /root/initial-packages > > Just hold on to that file, and it will allow you to return to this > state on the same machine, or conceivably even a different machine. > My approach to something similar (in my case, when Installation of the packages I want are complete, and the first "apt-get upgrade" is finished), is to do a clean Shutdown, boot from a Rescue CD (or USB), and issue a "tar cvf" on the Mounted Directory. Why "tar and feather" from another Linux, instead of the running one? To avoid the "Virtual File Systems", such as, for example, /proc. <snip complaining about complaining> Good luck! Kenneth Parker
