Comments on: Cloning Debian System Packages http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Marius Gedminas http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111101 Marius Gedminas Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:31:16 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111101 You don’t need vim and vim-gnome: vim-gnome contains both gvim and terminal vim which completely replaces (via the alternatives system) the vim binary you get from the vim package.

]]> By: Neil Greenwood http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111092 Neil Greenwood Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:05:29 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111092 If you replace the first –get-selections command with:
aptitude search ‘~i !~M’ -F ‘%p install’ > packages-list

then you only output the packages that you’ve selected for installation. All dependencies/auto-installed packages will be automatically included as normal. It makes it easier for APT’s autoremove functionality to work as intended.

Reference: http://blog.hanno-stock.de/archives/50

]]> By: gnuski.blogspot.com/ http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111091 gnuski.blogspot.com/ Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:52:36 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111091 Your comments section ate my line break! That should have read> I agree, installing KDE should be a choice during the install, not something that has to be done afterwards!

]]> By: gnuski.blogspot.com/ http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111090 gnuski.blogspot.com/ Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:51:11 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111090 > So, when installing on a desktop or laptop, I’m slightly annoyed by the
> default package sets that are installedI agree, installing KDE should be a choice during the install, not something that has to be done afterwards! :D

]]> By: Aaron http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111086 Aaron Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:37:47 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111086 @Clive- After you’ve built a system to the way you want it, you create the packages.txt file. Then, when building a new Debian system, you need to copy that file over to the new system after you’ve completed a base install. So, use whatever means necessary to make the copy: SCP, FTP, NFS, SMB, USB, etc.

]]> By: Aaron http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111085 Aaron Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:33:37 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111085 apt-get still understands what to autoremove. However, I use aptitude.

]]> By: Julian Andres Klode http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111084 Julian Andres Klode Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:37:33 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111084 I guess this makes APT’s autoremove completely useless for you, since you now install all libraries, etc, manually.

]]> By: Clive http://pthree.org/2010/08/19/cloning-debian-system-packages/#comment-111083 Clive Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:57:15 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=1444#comment-111083 This is a great idea.

Could you just explain a bit more this part of the process:
Thank you.

“copy the packages.txt file you created via SCP or some other method to the filesystem”

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