[Gllug] CFengine and dpkg/dselect

[Rich Walker]

Russell Howe <rhowe at wiss.co.uk> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:58:37PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:44:13PM +0000, Russell wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:03:10PM +0000, Rich Walker wrote:
>> > > What can I replace the apt-get with, so that the next time I run
>> > > dselect/apt-get install from the console of the machine, it does the
>> > > install then, and asks the questions then?
>> > 
>> > dpkg --{set,get}-selections?
>> 
>> That doesn't install anything, it just sets preferences for what happens
>> next time you use (for example) dselect to install packages.
>
> That's what I understood the OP to want... It does mean that he'd have

That's what I want. I think I'm going to look at dpkg a bit more
carefully. 

(goes away ... reads source... )

Hmm. Well,

echo docbook-ebnf install | dpkg --set-selections

does what you'd expect, so that's that sorted :->

cheers, Rich.

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