a way to force a set of packages on a machine?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

>
> Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton at cc.hut.fi> writes:
>
>>    I'm trying to set up a mechanism which would force a set of packages on
>> a machine, so that extra packages are removed if they are not on the list
>> and new ones get installed. The motivation for this is to force the users
>> (which might have local sudo-power) a fixed set of packages and to keep
>> them from installing extra packages which might break something or leave
>> cruft behind. The other use is to centrally manage package removals from a
>> single place, no need to dpkg -r remotely or anything.
>
> Have a look at the pkgsync package.

Whoa, thanks! It works great :)

couldn't find that myself..

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