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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       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:

       o   $HOME/.aptitude

       o   /var/lib/aptitude

       o   /var/lib/apt

       o   /var/cache/apt/*.bin

       o   /etc/apt

       o   /var/lib/dpkg/status

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

OPTIONS

       --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't 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.

FILE FORMAT

       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 ".".

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

       Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
	   Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007 Daniel Burrows.

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