Man page 1 : aptitude-create-state-bundle

aptitude-create-state-bundle - bundle the current aptitude state

aptitude-create-state-bundle [<options>...] <output-file>

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:


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . $HOME/.aptitude


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . /var/lib/aptitude


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . /var/lib/apt


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . /var/cache/apt/*.bin


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . /etc/apt


    .ie n \ \h'-04'\h'+03'\c .

2.3 . /var/lib/dpkg/status

The output of this program can be used as an argument to aptitude-run-state-bundle(1).

--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\*(Aqt 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.

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 « . ».

aptitude-run-state-bundle(1), aptitude(8), apt(8)

Daniel Burrows <>
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Copyright 2007 Daniel Burrows.

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