Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
USM Bish wrote: console-apt (capt) does just that. It has three packet dividers: a) Updated packages b) Installed packages (newer version available) c) Non-installed packages This is news to me. Are they in the order you list them? If so, I probably just didn't notice the divider between b) and c). -- see shy jo
Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
console-apt (capt) does just that. It has three packet
dividers:
a) Updated packages
b) Installed packages (newer version available)
c) Non-installed packages
USM Bish
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:12:11PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JH AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages.
JH Dselect, however, will do everything you want.
aptitude does call out newly available packages, though it considers a
package 'new' until the new list is explicitly cleared (with 'f'). My
usage with aptitude is generally: update available packages ('u');
expand newly available packages category ('['); install anything I
want out of that list ('+'); clear new list ('f'); expand updated
packages category ('['); examine, resolve conflicts, go ('g').
As far as I'm concerned, though, dselect is a perfectly usable tool; I
mostly use aptitude these days out of peer pressure. :-)
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
List new packages after an apt-get update
After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did an apt-get update. (I.e., ignore packages that have been updated but not since the previous time I did an apt-get update) Are there any simple command line methods for getting these two lists (or do I need to persist in learning what seems to me to be the quite un-intuitive interfaces in deity and aptitude). Many thanks in advance, Graham
Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
Graham Williams wrote: After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did an apt-get update. (I.e., ignore packages that have been updated but not since the previous time I did an apt-get update) Are there any simple command line methods for getting these two lists (or do I need to persist in learning what seems to me to be the quite un-intuitive interfaces in deity and aptitude). AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages. Dselect, however, will do everything you want. -- see shy jo
Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JH AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages.
JH Dselect, however, will do everything you want.
aptitude does call out newly available packages, though it considers a
package 'new' until the new list is explicitly cleared (with 'f'). My
usage with aptitude is generally: update available packages ('u');
expand newly available packages category ('['); install anything I
want out of that list ('+'); clear new list ('f'); expand updated
packages category ('['); examine, resolve conflicts, go ('g').
As far as I'm concerned, though, dselect is a perfectly usable tool; I
mostly use aptitude these days out of peer pressure. :-)
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal.
-- Abra Mitchell
Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:52:30PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did an apt-get update. (I.e., ignore packages that have been updated but not since the previous time I did an apt-get update) Are there any simple command line methods for getting these two lists (or do I need to persist in learning what seems to me to be the quite un-intuitive interfaces in deity and aptitude). Many thanks in advance, Graham G'day Graham, apt-get -u upgrade will show installed packages that have newer version then the one on your system. just answer no to the continue prompt if you want don't want to upgrade them all automaticaly. If you want to find all new packages you could backup, ( I think this is correct) you /var/lib/apt/lists directory before the each update, then compare the backup directory to the newly downloaded list, or write a script that does the lot. There might be an easier way to do this ?? Cheers Joel -- Anagrams reveal the mysteries. Windows Two Thousand Professional = Stoned Sonata: Worship Windows foul.
