Dan Jacobson schrieb: > Package: apt-show-versions > Version: 0.10 > Severity: normal > > $ apt-show-versions -v mime-codecs > mime-codecs 7.19-7 newer than version in archive > > No it is not. It is gone from the archive. > $ apt-cache policy mime-codecs > only shows > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Anyway, please distinguish the cases of gone from the archive (no > longer in sid), and dpkg-repack packages too. > > I want a "vrms" like command line for anacron that will send me a list > of Obsolete and Locally Created Package by mail each month and > distinguish the ones made by dpkg-repack and the ones that silently > disappeared from sid. > I don't want to use a GUI like synaptic or the scary to me aptitude > GUI. > OK, maybe I will try > apt-show-versions|sort >/tmp/apt-show-versions > for i in /unknown 'newer than version in archive' \ > 'No available version in archive'; do echo; echo ======$i;\ > fgrep "$i" /tmp/apt-show-versions; done >
How do you distinguish between those packages? Both have no version in the archives. Since apt-show-versions holds no history, it can't decide if it was build with dpkg-repack or not. Christoph -- ============================================================================ Christoph Martin, EDV der Verwaltung, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefon: +49-6131-3926337
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