In Reply to @perrito666 @QliXed @_zzzoom_ @ralsina But even without preserving config it cannot export a simple rebuild file which would be enough for most desktop setups

In Reply to @QliXed @QliXed @_zzzoom_ @ralsina Agreed but, at least dpkg, knows these changes were made and can merge them with new versions so it should be able to do this, it is a configuration manager of sorts.

In Reply to @perrito666 @QliXed @ralsina or for that matter, the same with yum

In Reply to @QliXed @QliXed @ralsina I am pretty sure ansible solves the problem, yet I think it would be nicer to have:

1. apt-get dump -f seed.tar.gz
2. apt-get regrow seed.tar.gz

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In Reply to @ralsina @ralsina Yeah i sort of do that now and also stopped using linux on the desktop i mostly use it through automated provisioning these days and that supports scripting all right ;)

In Reply to @perrito666 @ralsina I have dumped and rebuilt my ubuntu countless times and all of them had to do a dpkg+grep+cut gimmick that never yields a decent result.

In Reply to @ralsina @ralsina Ah no, that is not what i meant, i wanted something like pip freeze but for apt (and of course that keeps the conf files that have been changed) but even without that there is no option

In Reply to @ralsina @ralsina I was not aware of this, how do you dump the current status?

I am amazed at the fact that most package managers for linux distro lack an option to dump state so far and customization of files onto a file that can be used to rebuild.