[svlug] Debian rebuild

[kmself@ix.netcom.com]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 05:17:25PM -0700, J C Lawrence (claw at kanga.nu) wrote:
> 
> Under Debian, is there a reasonably simple way to suck down new
> copies of all packages installed on the system, and to re-install
> them?  The obvious way is to start with something based on:
> 
>   dpkg --get-selections | cut -d\t -f1
> 
> to get a list of the installed packages.  Problem is apt-get doesn't
> seem to have a facility to retrieve a named package if it is the
> same as the currently installed copy.  Now I could hack the dpkg
> status file, but that seems a bit tacky...

    $ apt-get --reinstall ?

If that doesn't force the download, the following might:

    $ rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
    $ dpkg --get-selections | grep 'install' | cut -d\t -f1 |
        xargs apt-get --reinstall

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