Re: Question about get-selections

I have done more experiments and have come up with these notes for now. #BACKUP dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 == "install"' > packagesNG_installed aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > packagesNG_autoinstalled debconf-get-selections | grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#|$)' > packagesNG_debconf # RESTORE # ma

Re: Question about get-selections

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > In post.gmane.org>, J.M.Roth wrote: > >Now... I've been playing a little bit with this. > > > >First, I get some > >warning: Unknown type error, skipping line > >using debconf-set-selections < ... > > Hrm, that's somewhat troubling. It won't

Re: Question about get-selections

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > >I'd rather do > >aptitude -F '%p' search '~i~M' > auto_installed_packages > >Your command does not work if the package state is e.g. 'i A' > >(note the space) > > Actually, it only works in that case. Of course, because of the search > terms

Re: Question about get-selections

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. iguanasuicide.net> writes: > > On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:09:28 Paul E Condon wrote: > >Your suggestion does raise in interesting issue: given a set of > >installed packages in a --get-selections file, and given that the > >dependency information is available in the pack