[Gllug] CFengine and dpkg/dselect

Bruce Richardson itsbruce at uklinux.net
Tue Mar 15 22:58:37 UTC 2005


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.

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