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Including backup of Debian/Ubuntu Package selection

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Hi,

is there a change to implement a automatic Backup of the Debian/Ubuntu Package selection? Maybe with a solution for a automatic restore?

It will made the Backup/Restore much easier with less configuration.

Additional - what's with packages who are installed from a file, not from a source? It would be fine if there will be a way for a Systembackup without changes in system.

thanks

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Germar (germar) said : 		#1

I assume you know faq #2455 and faq #2456?!
Including this would be possible, for sure. But there are so many different systems and situations out there so I would rather not include this. And if I'd do next day the Fedora, Arch and OpenSuse guys out there would ask to have the same function for their package management system included next. This would be a never ending story ;-)

With 'installed from file' you mean build and installed from source tarball instead of installed from repository? I'd recommend to always build .deb files from source and install them with 'dpkg -i *.deb'. Create a folder for all your self build *.deb files and back it up, too. After restoring and reinstalling your package selection apt-get will inform you which packages wasn't found in repositories. Now you just need to reinstall them with 'dpkg -i *.deb'.

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Germar

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