<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Schierl</b> <<a href="mailto:schierlm@gmx.de">schierlm@gmx.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Juergen Fiedler schrieb:<br>> I'm<br>> playing around with adding things to grml_small (being that stipping the<br>> big one down seems rather intimidating)<br>[...]</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

>From one of my scripts for a similar purpose:<br><br>export LANG=C<br>export LC_MESSAGES=<br>mv /etc/apt/sources.list{,-moved}<br>touch /etc/apt/sources.list<br>apt-get update<br>dpkg --get-selections | sed s/install$/purge/ | dpkg --set-selections

<br>dpkg --set-selections <grml-small-0.3-selections<br>dpkg --set-selections <my-selections<br>apt-get -y dselect-upgrade<br>apt-get -f install<br>apt-get dselect-upgrade</blockquote><div><br><br>So I have played around with this script for a while; I am trying to keep X, so my 'my-selections' looks like this:

<br><br>-------<br>linux-image-2.6.18-grml         install<br>unionfs-modules-2.6.18-grml     install<br>grml-policyrcd                  install<br>policyrcd-script-zg2            install<br>locales                         install

<br>man-db                          install<br>fluxbox                         install<br>grml-x                          install<br>hwinfo                          install<br>libhal1                         install<br>libhd13                         install

<br>pciutils                        install<br>xbase-clients                   install<br>xfonts-base                     install<br>xserver-xorg                    install<br>xserver-xorg-core               install<br>xserver-xorg-input-all          install

<br>xserver-xorg-input-evdev        install<br>xserver-xorg-input-kbd          install<br>xserver-xorg-input-mouse        install<br>xserver-xorg-input-synaptics    install<br>xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse      install<br>xserver-xorg-input-wacom        install

<br>xserver-xorg-video-fbdev        install<br>xserver-xorg-video-vesa         install<br>xterm                           install<br>-------<br><br>The first 'apt-get -y dselect-upgrade' runs fine and leaves everything related to X alone. 

<br>The second one, though, wants to remove everything that looks remotely like X:<br><br>-------<br>apt-get -y dselect-upgrade<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree... Done<br>The following packages will be REMOVED:

<br>  grml-x xkb-data* xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all<br>  xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse<br>  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse<br>  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-vesa

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 12 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 15.6MB disk space will be freed. ------- What am I missing there? Do I have to put the whole dependency tree for those packages  into my selection file?

<br>Maybe it would be easier to strip grml down to the minimum packages you mentioned and then go using aptitude or apt-get; wouldn't I need one of them to install packages that were not part of the original grml-0.9.iso

, anyway (assuming that  I don't want to download and install all .deb files manually)?<br><br>Thanks,<br>  --j<br> </div><br></div>