Thank you Daniel,<br><br>I really hope that aptitude will have it as an option in it's menu to export and import the selections.<br><br>At least i now learned how to do this with dpkg which is very helpful right now. <br>
<br>for the config files i'll just save all .conf, .ini etc. <br><br>What i try to do is following:<br><br>Export the selections for a pre configured machines, like this:<br>- HP Vectra 420 Office,<br>- Compaq iPaq internet kiosk
<br>- HP EVO File server<br><br>I'm helping someone who is running a low budget Internet cafe in Africa. Harddrive failure is one of the most common issues, and backups are the second issue. <br><br>So if i can store at least the selections on a web server and have an easy way to apply them to a fresh install then i'm half way ready.
<br><br>I'm just trying to figure out a way to save custom machine configurations but as small as possible. And i was wondering why aptitude didn't give me this option. Anyway, i now have something to work with, and i keep hoping for a 2 button solution. :-) I'm sure there are many people out there who could use an option like this.
<br><br>I know that to many options are a killer (Just by looking at Office applications.) I'm having a little vision for this option, but not the skills to build it, So i thought "Lets donate this idea" :-)
<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Mano.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Burrows</b> <<a href="mailto:dburrows@debian.org">dburrows@debian.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:42:21AM +0200, MNO <<a href="mailto:manostienen@gmail.com">manostienen@gmail.com</a>> was heard to say:<br>> Dear readers,<br>><br>> i hope this is the right place to post this request.
<br>><br>> What I'm really missing in aptitude / synaptic is:<br>><br>> - a file dump of all the installed packages + the /etc/apt/sources.list.<br><br> You can do that with dpkg --get-selections and tar (to wrap up
<br>/etc/apt and /var/lib/aptitude, maybe /var/lib/apt too).<br><br>> - a way to import the above files (from my personal website) so that i<br>> can install all those packages with a few simple commands.<br><br> untar the files and run dpkg --set-selections.
<br><br>> - an add on that can collect all my config files.<br><br> tar will do that if you point it at /etc. Of course, not everything<br>in /etc is suitable for being moved between computers, but there's no<br>
information available telling tools which files to ignore.<br><br> It sounds to me like what you're asking for is either trivial or<br>really hard, but I don't know which, and I don't know where aptitude is<br>
supposed to come into it. It might help if you provided some use cases:<br>say exactly what you want to do and exactly what should happen; I'm<br>just guessing what you meant above. Just because it's obvious to you
<br>doesn't mean it's obvious to me. :-)<br><br> Daniel<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>