Aug 26 2005
Never a Dull Moment…
I’ve been up to a few things over the last while. Apart from getting back into the studying habit for my exams soon, I’ve also been doing a small amount of tinkering, including learning how to be more active in the FreeBSD and Debian projects, mainly through bug reporting/fixes and making a few packages. After my exams, I also have to contrive a method to syncronise the installed packages on multipe Debian servers.
There is also a lot of meeting activity within the Irish tech community in recent days, not only is there a proposed ILUG Key Signing Party in September, but a full day’s talks, christened TechCamp is being organised for a Saturday in October as well. And those are only the non repeditive gatherings.
There’s the usual SAGE-IE meeting and perhaps even a second IEnog gathering coming up before October.
Untested, but the quick n dirty principle to syncing installed packages between two Debian machines:
dpkg –get-selections|grep install$|ssh host ‘dpkg –get-selections; apt-get dselect-upgrade’
Thank you.
I haven’t gotten around to looking at it too much, but dpkg –get-selections was the way I was going.
I do want to have some extra features such as passwordless, locked down ssh keys (since I’d be sshing as root between machines) and an excludes list so that some packages don’t get transferred over (eg Apache 2, etc…)
I guess I should make the script properly so it packages into a deb nicely, so I could even submit it to Debian at some point…