Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread David
On 5 July 2013 05:24, green wrote: > David wrote at 2013-07-03 06:10 -0500: >> On 3 July 2013 21:06, David wrote: >> > I did something similar using aptitude: >> >> aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' >package_list >> aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) > > I use and recommend aptitude because of

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread green
David wrote at 2013-07-03 06:10 -0500: > On 3 July 2013 21:06, David wrote: > > I did something similar using aptitude: > > > > aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!M' >package_list > > aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) > > Sorry, there is a typo error above. It should be: > > aptitude -F "%p" sear

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-04 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 03/07/13 15:36, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/07/13 21:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 03/07/13 20:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> > > Typo corrections. Blame jetlag and just being dumb - sorry. > > You'll also need to consider backing up your custom perl stuff. Thank you, all fo

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/07/13 21:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/07/13 20:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi all, >> Typo corrections. Blame jetlag and just being dumb - sorry. You'll also need to consider backing up your custom perl stuff. > # dpkg --get-selections > ~/squeeze_selections > # tar zcvf - /etc

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/07/13 20:26, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd appreciate some advice, please. I'm sure this has come up before, > but despite Googling, can't find it right now, so if anyone has a link, > that would help. > > My main development system here basically runs Squeeze/KDE, but with a >

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread David
On 3 July 2013 21:06, David wrote: > > I did something similar using aptitude: > > aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!M' >package_list > aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) Sorry, there is a typo error above. It should be: aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' >package_list aptitude -R install $(cat pack

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread David
On 3 July 2013 20:58, Michael Tsang wrote: > dpkg --get-selections > file > dpkg --set-selections < file I did something similar using aptitude: aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!M' >package_list aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Michael Tsang
dpkg --get-selections > file dpkg --set-selections < file On Wednesday 03 July 2013 18:26:30 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > So my outline plan is to do a standard netinst for wheezy on the new > box, and then wave a magic wand to get it to install all the missing > packages. All I'm missing is the ma