Re: Configuration DB

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

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    Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:31:41 -0400
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    begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:51:16 -0400:

    > On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:
    >
    > > 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'.

    <snip>

    > The '--get-selections' and '--set-selections' only give your the list of
    > packages, they won't save configuration for you.

    Pipe the output of `dpkg --get-selections` to a file, copy that over
    to the new computer, and pipe it into `dpkg --set-selections`. Then
    run apt-get -f install; it'll attempt to install all packages on the
    first computer. You'll still have to answer configuration questions,
    but you won't need to specify packages. 

    


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