Deciding what packages to put on an install CD

[Niall Young]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Bruce  Edge wrote:

> I want to grab all specified and dependant packages from the package lists in package_config/* to put on the install CD.
> How can I generate a list of all the dependant packages?
> ie: a list of all the packages that the specified packages in package_config/* depend on?

Assuming you've already done an `apt-get update`, parse the file and
do a `dpkg-awk Package:^$package$ -- Depends` on each.  Or if you've
got those files stored locally do a `dpkg --field $file Depends` on
each, then remove all commas from both for apt.

But I'd rather see a full repository with Packages.gz files - we either
have a full mirror or subset, and generate an index for it.  See my next
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