On Thursday 14 August 2008 03:00, Frans Pop wrote: > Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > I've just started to do research in order to write a tool which I was > > always missing. What I have so far is just a brief "background" > > information, explaining the problem - see below. > > I agree that this is a missing feature ATM: to be able to see at a glance > which packages did not come from the regular repository or have newer > versions than available from registered repositories. > > However, I would actually prefer this to be integrated in the regular > package management frontends (e.g. aptitude) rather than a separate tool.
I put in +1 to that. Nothing to add. > > If the source of the package is in /etc/apt/sources.list, it should be > trivial to create a new view and/or informational fields that show where > an installed version comes from: regular archive, security, volatile, > external archive. Or, if there are no matches to show it as locally > installed. > > If there are multiple potential sources some kind of ordering may be > needed [1] as may handling of CD sets. > > Cheers, > FJP > > [1] 'apt-cache policy <package>' essentially already does ordering -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]