Making package lists match up

[Carsten Aulbert]

Hi,

maybe I'm a bit rusty in my FAI knowledge and it's hidden somewhere in
the wiki and I have not found it.

What are the standard procedures to ensure that I can FAIify an existing
machine, i.e. to make sure the exact packages will be installed?

Simple idea would be to query dpkg and put all those packages into the
class, but that looks awkward:

dpkg --get-selections |grep -v deinstall | awk '{print $1;}' > packages

Are there better (not too manual) ways to do it?

TIA

Carsten