On Monday 29 May 2017 02:45 CEST, Cem Karan wrote:
>
> On May 27, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 27 May 2017 16:34 CEST, Cem Karan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On May 27, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday 27 May 2017 12:33 CEST, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I wrote a script to run as a cron job to check if I need to
>>>>> update my Python installations. I migrated from openSUSE to
>>>>> Debian and that does not work anymore (pip2 and pip3): it
>>>>> displays the same with and without --outdated. Anyone knows what
>>>>> the problem could be?
>>>>
>>>> It does not exactly displays the same, but it displays all
>>>> packages, while in the old version it only displayed the outdated
>>>> versions. I already made a change with awk, but I would prefer
>>>> the old functionality.
>>>>
>>>> By the way, the patch is:
>>>> pip2 list --outdated --format=legacy | awk '
>>>> {
>>>> if (substr($2, 2, length($2) - 2) != $5) {
>>>> print $0
>>>> }
>>>> }'
>>>
>>> Could you check the output of 'pip3 --version'? When I tested pip3
>>> on my machine, 'pip3 list --outdated' only yielded the outdated
>>> packages, not a list of everything out there.
>>
>> Both as normal user and root I get:
>> pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5)
>
> I'm completely flummoxed then; on my machines I get the 'old'
> behavior. Can you try a completely clean Debian install somewhere
> (maybe on a virtual box) and see what happens? I'm wondering if
> there is something going on with your migration.
I will do that. By the way, because of hardware I installed Stretch
which at the moment is still in testing.
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