On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Alle 14:57, mar 11 marzo 2008, Andreas Bombe ha scritto: > > It's no active notification, but aptitude lists all installed packages > > that aren't in any distribution included in sources.list under "Obsolete > > and Locally Created Packages". Verifying that this doesn't include any > > packages that I expect there (like locally compiled kernel module > > packages) is my way of checking for removed packages. > > aptitude should perhaps list packages that became (that is, are and weren't > before) obsolete (= not being in any archive? removed?) every time actions > are performed through its CLI? Seems like an efficient way...
I wrote a patch to do this on the way to work this morning, and I think it should actually work now. Note, though, that it only works for obsolete packages in the new index: if you remove a source and update, packages made obsolete by that change aren't detected. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
