On January 26, 2003 05:34 pm, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> > Further, I should make clear that knx-hdinstall is NOT meant to be a
> > standard Debian installer. It will never be, because it only works
> > on a running Knoppix system. Selection of single packages is
> > impossible because everything is already installed in a big filesystem
> > tree under /KNOPPIX (the mount point for /dev/cloop).
>
> Actually, I don't think it is impssible. You can turn any package
> installed on Knoppix back into its .deb form using dpkg-repack,
> generate the dependency list and install only a selection of the packages.
> Of course, this would be a lot of work. I don't know if something like
> (a syntactically incorrect example follows)
> dpkg-repack --root=/KNOPPIX packagename --outfile - | dpkg -i -
> would work, though. Probably you have to use a huge temporary space to
> intermediately store all .deb packages.
>
> Or, write a script that copies only the files in the selected packages
> using dpkg -L.
> It may work. It is surely not a quick hack, though.
I'm not sure it's worth the trouble. See my answer to Christain for the same
message.
GP
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