Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-24 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've implemented --get-selections and --set-selections in dpkg 1.3.9 > which will be released some time this weekend. > > --get-selections produces a list of lines each with a package name and > wanted state. By default it lists all the packages; you can sp

Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes ("Dpkg feature request"): ... > Thus, I'll ask Ian Jackson. How about three flags to dpkg? > --select package-name [package-name ...] > Selects a list of packages for later installation. > --deselect package-name [package-name ...] > De-se

Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-21 Thread David M. Cooke
Bruce Perens wrote: > I think this is _almost_ right. What you need is to copy the dpkg status > file in a way that marks the packages as selected _but_not_installed_ on > the second system. It would take a script to do this, because you don't want > to take anything that got installed in the base

Re: Dpkg feature request

1996-08-21 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Bruce Perens wrote: : : Thus, I'll ask Ian Jackson. How about three flags to dpkg? : : --select package-name [package-name ...] : Selects a list of packages for later installation. : --deselect package-name [package-name ...] : De-selects a list of packages