On 03/19/2010 05:14 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > "carlopmart" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> carlopmart wrote: >>> Scott Kitterman wrote: >>>> >>>> "Jorge Armando Medina" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> carlopmart wrote: >>>>>> Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote: [...] >>>>>>> jonat...@disclaimer:~$ apt-cache show apache2 | grep Supported >>>>>>> Supported: 5y >>>>>>> jonat...@disclaimer:~$ apt-cache show gcalctool | grep Supported >>>>>>> Supported: 3y
[...] >>>>>> Good. But how can I configure apt to only/install/update, etc .. >>>>>> these packages supported for 5y and discard all 3y support packages?? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Then dont use universe and multiverse repositories, only main. >>>>> >>>> That doesn't solve the OP's problem. He wants to avoid desktop >>>> packages with a 3 year support window. >>>> Scott K >>>> >>> Exactly. Is it possible to do this?? >>> >> Nothing?? Isn't possible to do this?? >> > One of the Canonical people had a script for this. I guess Scott is referring to maintenance-check. It's functions have been integrated into apt-cache as shown above, so it's deprecated and was not providing anything more than information. Sincerely, I think that if you only pick packages that are in main which are not desktop related (non gui) you should be fine and you can easily check that you are ok looping "dpkg -l" through "apt-cache show $xx" and checking the results. Wouldn't you? Nick
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