Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:07:59 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:16:02 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > on first sytsem: > > >

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:09:00PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:16:02 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > > [...] > > > > on first sytsem: > > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > > on new base install: > > >

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:16:02 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: [...] > > on first sytsem: > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > on new base install: > > copy over selections.txt > > dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt > > dselect up

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 23:19:55 -, McNamee, John wrote: > How do you use the output from "aptitude search" to re-install the > packages on the new system? On the old system: aptitude -F %p search '~i' > all-packages.txt aptitude -F %p search '~i~M' > auto-packages.txt On the new system: ap

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0700, Jeff D wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: > >>I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and n

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:19:55PM -, McNamee, John wrote: > How do you use the output from "aptitude search" to re-install the > packages on the new system? I just go through aptitude interactive manually. New versions of packages may have different depends and recommends. The list of _manu

RE: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread McNamee, John
How do you use the output from "aptitude search" to re-install the packages on the new system? --John -Original Message- From: Douglas Allan Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Replicate installed packa

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:22 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:36:38PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: > > > I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now > > > I'd like to install

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:22:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I use: > #aptitude search '~i!~M' > > This shows only the packages installed (~i) but not automatically (!~M), > in other words, the packages that I specifically installed. > That's pretty slick. Regards, -Roberto

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:36:38PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: > > I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now > > I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way to > > get the list of

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way to

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Bill Thompson
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:21:08 - "McNamee, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and > now I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best > way to get the list of packages installed on the test system, and then > re-in

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: > I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now > I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way to > get the list of packages installed on th