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

Replicating a Squeeze system on Wheezy

2013-07-03 Thread Tony van der Hoff
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 lot of packages added, mostly from the repositories, but al