[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: [maemo-announce] New Nokia 770 software image available

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt> writes:

> It should be pretty easy to get a list of installed packages from apt
> (or the application installer) before the flash, and then reinstall them
> in one swoop with apt-get install.

There is maemo-list-user-packages that you could use as a starting
point.

Also, support is planned for exactly this feature in the Application
Manager...

> By the way, can someone confirm or deny that the backup tool does not
> back up your /etc/apt/sources.list and therefore you will have to re-add
> all the application manager repositories manually?

The /etc/apt/sources.list file is not backed up until version 4.27 of
the osso-application-installer package, and you need version 1.4.1-1
or later of osso-backup to actually restore it.

(It took me a while to understand that backing up sources.list is
actually a useful thing to do.  Sorry for delaying that feature for so
long.)