[Gllug] Debian Matching Machines

[Peter Childs]

Russell Howe wrote:

>On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:13:36PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
>  
>
>>   I have 3 debian computers which I would like to all have a matching 
>>sets of installed debian packages, I think I ought to be able to do this 
>>with dpkg --set-selection but I don't seam to be able to get it work 
>>properly, Does anyone have any ideas.
>>    
>>
>
>machine1 # dselect update select install
>
>[ make your selections, and check the system's working as expected ]
>
>machine1 $ dpkg --get-selections > selections
>machine1 $ scp selections machine2:
>machine1 $ scp selections machine3:
>machine2 # dpkg --set-selections < selections && dselect update install
>machine3 # dpkg --set-selections < selections && dselect update install
>
>Not tested, but it should work.
>
>  
>
    I tend to use apt-get to install things rather than dselect, I can't 
stand the gui in dselect.

Peter Childs
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