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Re: How long to setup a new system?



 On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:57 -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Jan 29, 2008 8:38 AM, Dan Ritter <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > dpkg --get-selections > packagelist 
> > 
> > on a good system, copy packagelist over to the target, and 
> > 
> > dpkg --set-selections < packagelist 
> > 
> > and let apt-get take it from there. 
> 
> +1 
> Yeah, I back up /etc, /home, and use get/set-selections.  I don't know 
> of a similar feature in Red Hat.  I am hoping that Jarod will 
> enlighten us :-) 


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