On 2016-02-03, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > I think that indeed the way to get this list of newer packages Kali than > in Debian is using ?upgradable, if pinning of the repositories (man > apt_preferences) is done correctly and if Kali's versions indeed show > higher numbers than Debian. Is this not working properly? > I know about pinning solution. Just keep text short.
This require modifying system files in order to make desired query. Doing so in chroot environments after debootstrap also looks complicated. > Another way to get such a list would be to produce a list of packages > and versions of both Kali an Debian, and post-process it using "dpkg > --compare-versions". > I think that "python-apt" is better way to do such task because parsing output from: $ aptitude versions '...' $ apt-cache policy '...' ... isn't pleasure. But I haven't worked with "python-apt". > In general, I don't know if the requested operator is very useful, > because aptitude and apt have different concept of how the system should > work, based on apt pinning. Packages in Debian experimental or unstable > might have bigger version numbers than the ones in testing or stable, > but still the ones in testing and stable used by default, because the > user prefers to maintain most packages in the stable or testing version. > One important question when you work with mixed sources - what is the difference. With "?narrow(X,Y)" you get it. But you don't know how they are different. List of newer/older packages gives better picture. But anyway I don't know easy way to display and process list of packages with versions. "apt-cache policy" output is not in machine readable format. "aptitude" formatting is not so rich to show several versions for single package: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s05s01.en.html I was not aware about formatting issue. I don't need list of packages without origin/version association. I think that request should be closed. Any advanced querying should be done with "python-apt" or other programming interfaces. -- http://defun.work/ _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
