RE: dpkg --get-selections question

2003-04-03 Thread Maria Rodriguez
Great! Thanks to you and to ronin2 as well! I appreciate your help very much. Maria -- Support your local ASPCA http://www.aspca.org/ --- "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Is there an easier way to do this even? Thanks for any help! > >dpkg --get-selections > somefile > >then > >

Re: dpkg --get-selections question

2003-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 10:19:36PM -0800, Maria Rodriguez wrote: > I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test > lab. I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' > and see if there were some way to parse it to just get the package > names. I'm no progra

RE: dpkg --get-selections question

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Johansson
>Is there an easier way to do this even? Thanks for any help! dpkg --get-selections > somefile then dpkg --set-selections < somfile apt-get dist-upgrade should do what you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: dpkg --get-selections question

2003-04-03 Thread nate
Maria Rodriguez said: > Hi, > > I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab. > I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if > there were some way to parse it to just get the package names. I'm no > programmer and can't script worth a darn,

dpkg --get-selections question

2003-04-03 Thread Maria Rodriguez
Hi, I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab. I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if there were some way to parse it to just get the package names. I'm no programmer and can't script worth a darn, so does anyone have any sugge