Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:29 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > The list generated by aptitude that way is not ready for use in > reinstallation (because of the status and description), but you can get > only a list of names with > $ aptitude search '~i!~M' | awk '{print $2}' > > (and other doze

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Rick Thomas wrote: > This is great. Thanks! > > One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed" > information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves > aptitude's "automatic" attribute? Yes. Run $ aptitude search '~i!~M' to get a list of the manually installed

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rick Thomas wrote: This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed" information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's "automatic" attribute? Enjoy! Rick I must confuse, I don't know what you are talking about. -- Damon

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
This is great. Thanks! One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed" information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves aptitude's "automatic" attribute? Enjoy! Rick On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: frits wrote: Hello, I have

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread frits
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:14:01PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > frits wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. > >Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of > >packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my > >installed pa

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread Michael Shuler
On 04/29/2008 01:44 PM, frits wrote: I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list in a clever way? I believe this should get you close -

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
frits wrote: Hello, I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list in a clever way? Thanks Frits: get the source.list names for any

keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread frits
Hello, I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my installed package list in a clever way? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec