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<reinhard> good morning
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<reinhard> question to all debian studs
<reinhard> a server crashed, but I have a backup of /var
<reinhard> how can I do an apt-get install of all the packages that were installed on the server before?
<jcater> reinhard... this is quick and dirty
<jcater> so read over the code
<jcater> but....
<jcater> ---- read.py ----
<jcater> f = open("/var/lib/dpkg/status")
<jcater> package = None
<jcater> for line in f:
<jcater>    if not line.strip():
<jcater>        package = None
<jcater>        continue
<jcater>    if line.startswith('Package:'):
<jcater>        package = line.split()[1]
<jcater>    if line.startswith('Status: install ok installed'):
<jcater>        print "%s\t\t\tinstall" % (package, )
<jcater> -------
<jcater> that should give you a list that you can feed into dpkg --set-selections
<jcater> followed by apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
<reinhard> ah hmm
<reinhard> you know where dpkg --get-selections takes the info from?
<reinhard> would something like
<jcater> pipe the output of the .py file to a temp file
<jcater> then < that file
<reinhard> 1. back up /var/lib/apt
<reinhard> err /var/lib/dpkg
<reinhard> 2. copy /var/lib/dpkg from old backup
<reinhard> dpkg --get-selections
<reinhard> restore previous /var/lib/dpkg
<reinhard> dpkg --set-selections
<reinhard> work?
<jcater> I don't see how it would hurt anything
<jcater> but honesty, you've exceeded my knowledge level of dpkg :)
<reinhard> ok
<reinhard> :)
<reinhard> thanks anyway
<reinhard> I'll try and find out
<reinhard> :)
<reinhard> your hint was good in any case
<reinhard> bbl
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