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New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 17, 2013 18:23 UTC (Wed) by riksu (guest, #91915)
In reply to: New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire) by The_Barbarian
Parent article: New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

I hope at this functionality will merged to apt or aptitude.

From source machine
dpkg --get-selections > list.txt

To target machine
dpkg --set-selections < list.txt
apt-get dselect-upgrade

This is quite handy when you upgrade hardware and need same software than older machine.

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New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 17, 2013 18:32 UTC (Wed) by The_Barbarian (guest, #48152) [Link] (1 responses)

It seems like it is fine in dpkg, right were it is. I don't see that anything would be gained by moving it up the stack.

New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project (ITWire)

Posted Jul 18, 2013 9:48 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

In dpkg there's no way to record which packages were installed automatically, so you can't accurately represent the current state of that packaging system without additional shenanigans.