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Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one.

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On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 19:18 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
[...]
> Alternatively, you can plug in the new drive and do a minimal install on it.
> Use 
> 
> dpkg --get-selections > somefilename 
> 
> to get a list of packages installed on one system and write it into somefile.
> 
> dpkg --set-selections < somefilename
> 
> will write that list for Debian's most basic package manager.
> 
> apt update ; apt dist-upgrade
> 
>  will then use that information to isntall the same package list onto the
> second machine as exists on the first machine - but that's complex.

Won't that process set all those packages as manually installed, so
should you later uninstall a top level package it's dependedncied won't
be automatically removed?

-- 
Tixy

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Copying one drive to a smaller one. <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-05-09 04:00 +0200
  Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-05-09 04:40 +0200
  Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-05-09 21:00 +0200
    Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2022-05-09 21:20 +0200
      Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2022-05-09 22:10 +0200
      Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-05-09 23:00 +0200
    Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-05-09 23:10 +0200
      Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-05-10 00:10 +0200
        Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-05-10 04:40 +0200
    Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. "stepore@gmail.com" <stepore@gmail.com> - 2022-05-10 07:10 +0200
    Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-05-10 14:40 +0200
      Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-05-10 18:30 +0200
      Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2022-05-10 21:20 +0200
      Re: Copying one drive to a smaller one. <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2022-05-10 21:30 +0200

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