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

DanielBurrows <dburrows@debian.org>
           Main author of the document.

       ManuelA.FernandezMontecelo <mafm@debian.org>
           Main maintainer after Daniel Burrows, documentation about new features, corrections and formatting.

       Copyright 2007 Daniel Burrows.

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aptitude-create-state-bundle 0                     02/17/2025                              APTITUDE-CREATE-ST(1)

Note

           This command is mostly for internal use and bug reporting in exceptional cases, it is not intended
           for end-users under normal circumstances.

       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:

       •   $HOME/.aptitude

       •   /var/lib/aptitude

       •   /var/lib/apt

       •   /var/cache/apt/*.bin

       •   /etc/apt

       •   /var/lib/dpkg/status

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

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

--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.

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

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