[wplug] debian install question

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 06:16:15PM +0200, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> On Saturday 15 January 2005 20:58, John Harrold wrote:
> > Sometime in January Eric C. Cooper assaulted the keyboard and
> > produced: 
> > | MachineB %  dpkg --get-selections > foo
> > | MachineB %  scp foo MachineA:
> > |
> > | (At this point you might want to use a text editor on foo to remove
> > | anything that you don't actually want on A.)
> > |
> > | MachineA #  dpkg --set-selections < foo
> >
> > The above stuff worked.
> >
> > | MachineA #  apt-get upgrade
> >
> > However, this did not. The following:
> 
> John, just for reference's sake, could you tell us how did it exactly 
> not work?
> 
> >   MachineA #  dselect install
> >
> > Did work.

My original suggestion was misguided.  It looks like apt doesn't
understand dpkg's selection states, only dselect does (as mentioned in
the dpkg man page).

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u