Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul M Foster wrote: I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the system I'm setting up is testing. I have a list of packages th

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:09:54PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > I was under the impression that if you wanted to copy selections from one > machine to the next, the proper syntax was > > vv > dpkg --get-selections \* > file The difference between that and plain 'dpkg --get-s

RE: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Walter Tautz
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, nate wrote: > Narins, Josh said: > > I was under the impression that if you wanted to copy selections from one > > machine to the next, the proper syntax was > > > > vv > > dpkg --get-selections \* > file > > not sure, but I've done the dpkg --get-sele

RE: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread nate
Narins, Josh said: > I was under the impression that if you wanted to copy selections from one > machine to the next, the proper syntax was > > vv > dpkg --get-selections \* > file not sure, but I've done the dpkg --get-selections >selections and imported on another machine(r

RE: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Narins, Josh
06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Replicating a system... sort of > > > Paul M Foster said: > > I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one > on my desk. > > (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious > wh

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-19 Thread nate
Paul M Foster said: > I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. > (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to > pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the > system I'm setting up is testing. > > I have a list of pa