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backupninja: Document how to make use of dpkg-selections.txt backed-up by the sys handler

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From: Olivier Berger <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: backupninja: Document how to make use of dpkg-selections.txt backed-up by the sys handler

Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:09:07 +0100

Package: backupninja
Version: 1.0.1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The sys handler of backuninja saves various informations that should be
helpful in restoring the system.

Among these, dpkg-selections.txt is supposed to help reinstalling the
packages.

However, dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections.txt doesn't seem to
still be operational in recent Debian releases.

There are probably many workarounds available, but a canonical
documentation, available in /usr/share/doc/backupninja would be very
much needed, as no backup system is much helpful without restoring
procedures.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages backupninja depends on:
ii  bash               4.4-2
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3
ii  dialog             1.3-20160828-2
ii  gawk               1:4.1.3+dfsg-0.1+b1
ii  mawk               1.3.3-17

backupninja recommends no packages.

Versions of packages backupninja suggests:
ii  bzip2          1.0.6-8
ii  debconf-utils  1.5.59
ii  duplicity      0.7.10-2
ii  genisoimage    9:1.1.11-3
ii  hwinfo         21.38-1
ii  mdadm          3.4-4
ii  rdiff-backup   1.2.8-7
ii  rsync          3.1.2-1
ii  subversion     1.9.5-1
ii  trickle        1.07-10
ii  wodim          9:1.1.11-3

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