NAME
aptitude-create-state-bundle - bundle the current aptitude state
SYNOPSIS
aptitude-create-state-bundle [<options>...] <output-file>
DESCRIPTION
aptitude-create-state-bundle produces a compressed archive storing the
files that are required to replicate the current package archive state.
The following files and directories are included in the bundle:
o $HOME/.aptitude
o /var/lib/aptitude
o /var/lib/apt
o /var/cache/apt/*.bin
o /etc/apt
o /var/lib/dpkg/status
The output of this program can be used as an argument to aptitude-run-
state-bundle(1).
OPTIONS
--force-bzip2
Override the autodetection of which compression algorithm to use.
By default, aptitude-create-state-bundle uses bzip2(1) if it is
available, and gzip(1) otherwise. Passing this option forces the
use of bzip2 even if it doesn't appear to be available.
--force-gzip
Override the autodetection of which compression algorithm to use.
By default, aptitude-create-state-bundle uses bzip2(1) if it is
available, and gzip(1) otherwise. Passing this option forces the
use of gzip even if bzip2 is available.
--help
Print a brief usage message, then exit.
--print-inputs
Instead of creating a bundle, display a list of the files and
directories that the program would include if it generated a
bundle.
FILE FORMAT
The bundle file is simply a tar(1) file compressed with bzip2(1) or
gzip(1), with each of the input directory trees rooted at ".".
SEE ALSO
aptitude-run-state-bundle(1), aptitude(8), apt(8)
AUTHOR
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
Author.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007 Daniel Burrows.
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