apt-get segfaults!!

Eray Ozkural (exa) erayo at cs.bilkent.edu.tr
Sat Jan 20 15:55:18 CET 2001


Will Lowe wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe we should try
> > > echo $packlist | xargs chroot ... apt-get install ???
> 
> I've actually been intending to build a patch that would let me do this:
> 
> chroot <new root> dpkg --set-selections < <package_list>
> chroot <new root> apt-get dselect-upgrade
> 
> Where <package_list> is the output of "dpkg --get-selections '*'".

Does this work where the original invocation fails?

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo at cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo



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