Re: Configuration DB

From: Alec Berryman (alec_at_thened.net)
Date: 08/07/04

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    Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400
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    begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400:

    > I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in
    > a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that
    > next time when I have to reinstall Debian, using apt-get install
    > <all my package list>, I don't have to answer those hard and tedious
    > questions again?

    Look at the man page for dpkg; particularly, '--get-selections' and
    '--set-selections'.

    
    

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