after installing knoppix 3.3 with knoppix-installer i decided to try and update the system

note: if you don't wan't a swap partition you must export IGNORE_CHECK=1 or it won't let you proceed

i was warned against useing dist-upgrade as it tends to kill kde

so i used apt-get upgrade and it upgraded some stuff but a lot was not upgraded

after some manual work i managed to get it to the point of 0 not upgraded but it was quite a bit of work and involved removeing some broken devel packages and such

this is obviously beyond a newbie

my idea is to have a program which works out what pacakges have been added upgraded downgraded or removed since my install (useing dpkg -l output)

then the program can be run on another machine to apply the changes file this will be done by comparing the changes file with the local dpkg-l and generating an apt-get command (with packge versions included on the command line)


what do people think if you like the idea i may well code it