On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:17:54 +1000, 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 $i ; done | grep "No > available version in archive$"
I prefer 'aptitude search ~S~i!~Odebian' over ~o because it also lists packages that are installed, but for which the installed version is not available from any apt repositories, whereas ~o will not. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

