On Friday 13 June 2008 07:17, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 13 June 2008 06:10, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:27:12PM +0200, Vladislav Kurz wrote: > > > 1. remove contrib and non-free from /etc/apt/sources.list > > > 2. run dselect (update, select) and you will see all contrib and > > > non-free packages as obsolete/local packages. > > > > Good, because it will show other suspects as well. E.g. packages > > from non-Debian apt sources, which are also unsupported > > security-wise. I wonder how I can achieve the same using just > > apt-get/apt-cache? I remember, that I once wrote a script using > > python-apt to get this information, but the script is lost :~( > > In lenny > $ aptitude search "~o" > > In etch I think this will work (but very slow) > $ for i in `aptitude search "~i" -F "%p"` ; do apt-show-versions $i ; > done | grep "No available version in archive$" Actually no need for aptitude, $ apt-show-versions |grep "No available version in archive$" will do the job.
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