On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:59:02PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 09:36:27PM +0300, Giorgos Pallas wrote: > > Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > On 10/13/07, Giorgos Pallas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hello to everybody! > > >> > > >> When I was using synaptic, I remember that it showed the version changes > > >> for every packet that was to be upgraded. > > >> > > >> Where exactly is this information hidden? How can I see it using > > >> aptitude, or maybe another command-line tool? I searched the internet > > >> but I can't seem to find something... > > >> > > > > > > Do you want to see the current version number of the packages and the > > > new version number? You can see that by using aptitude in interactive > > > mode (invoke "aptitude" instead of "aptitude upgrade"). > > > > > > If you mean you want to see what changes have been made to the > > > packages, check out apt-listchanges. > > OK, apt-listchanges was the answer. Thanks! > > FYI: You should also consider apt-listbugs > > Why install very buggy package either in command line or interactive > mode:-) > > Osamu > >
Or you can try to edit your aptitude configurations:
in ~/.aptitude/config
aptitude::CmdLine::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M %p %v / %V# - %d#";
Then after `aptitude update` run `aptitude search "~U"` and your
output will be something like:
# aptitude search "~U"
i A cpp 4:4.2.1-6 / 4:4.2.2-2 - The GNU Cpreprocessor (cpp)
^ Cur ^ New
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