Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-07 Thread Alexander Steinert
> >dpkg --get-selections > file # save package settings. > >dpkg --set-selections < file # set package settings. > > Once you've done that, is there a way to simply tell the system to > install, uninstall, upgrade, whatever, to exactly what the current > package selection settings are?

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-05 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:58:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Yes. > >dpkg --get-selections > file # save package settings. >dpkg --set-selections < file # set package settings. Once you've done that, is there a way to simply tell the system to install, uninstall, upgrade, whatever

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-05 Thread Ax
Dne st 5. prosinec 2001 00:58 Karsten M. Self napsal(a): > > The description of those options of dpkg is short of details. > > So ... do those --get-selections and --set-selections indeed > > serve to put the package-manager's database back the way it > > ought to be ( given that I got the right se

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-05 Thread Juha Mäkinen
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:33:39PM +0200, Juha Mäkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > > > > > Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X. > > > > If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things go > > > > wrong and I restore my

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:33:39PM +0200, Juha Mäkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X. > > > If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things go > > > wrong and I restore my backup - how do I put package > > > mabager back on track .

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Juha Mäkinen
> > Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X. > > If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things go > > wrong and I restore my backup - how do I put package > > mabager back on track ...? > > > > Or, do I backup just /home and leave all other stuff > > in the Hand Of God and Pac

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:48:05PM +0200, Juha Mäkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have tried fo find something - anything on this, but nobody seems to > bother with the question. So: > > - doing backup, and restoring, is simple > > - but, how do I keep package manager on track? Your questio

Re: backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Ax
Dne út 4. prosinec 2001 13:48 Juha Mäkinen napsal(a): > I have tried fo find something - anything on this, but > nobody seems to bother with the question. So: > > - doing backup, and restoring, is simple > > - but, how do I keep package manager on track? > > Especially given a partial backup, invol

backup vs package manager

2001-12-04 Thread Juha Mäkinen
I have tried fo find something - anything on this, but nobody seems to bother with the question. So: - doing backup, and restoring, is simple - but, how do I keep package manager on track? Especially given a partial backup, involving, f.ex. X. If I upgrade X with apt-get or dselect, but things g