[Gllug] Debian Matching Machines

[Russell Howe]

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.

-- 
Russell Howe       | Why be just another cog in the machine,
rhowe at siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug