[plug] dpkg --set-selections

[Russell Steicke]

Hello to debian people,

I am currently installing a new debian machine, which will run sid.  I
have installed potato from cd, and I want to upgrade it to sid.  I have
run apt-get update on the new box with an appropriate sources.list, and
copied the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives from the old box to the
new one, to avoid having to download it all again, then run dpkg
--get-selections on an existing debian box, and used the output from
that as input to dpkg --set-selections on the new one.  (I want the same
things installed.)

My question is, how do I now get the new box to install the new list?
There doesn't seem to be a dpkg option to do it.  Will apt-get
dist-upgrade to this?

Thanks
Russell


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Russell Steicke

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