• Bug#265758: aptitude: analogue of 'dpkg --(get|set)-selections' would b

    From Dan Drake@1:229/2 to All on Sat Aug 14 22:00:09 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: aptitude
    Version: 0.2.15.6-1
    Severity: wishlist

    It's easy to synchronize the packages between two Debian systems using
    "dpkg --get-selections" on one machine and "dpkg --set-selections" on the other. However, when doing so, the "automatically installed" aptitude flags are lost. It would be nice if aptitude had a corresponding facility, something like

    # aptitude --get-selections
    [...]
    emacs deinstall
    vim install
    vim-common install-auto

    which could be used with:

    # aptitude --set-selections < package-list.txt
    # aptitude dselect-upgrade

    or something similar. Right now, once can do this with something like

    # aptitude show '~M' | grep ^Package

    and a little bit of awk, xargs, and "aptitude markauto", but it would be
    nice if aptitude extended the dpkg functionality.

    Thanks,

    Dan Drake


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
    ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg
    ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
    ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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