Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> Hint: Read the bug page for APT to discover why!
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Looking through the apt bugs....., saw this one, rejected:
Bug#77054: wish: show current->upgraded versions on upgrade -u
My private solution to this is the following patch to `apt-get':
--- algorithms.cc-ORG Sat May 13 06:08:43 2000
+++ algorithms.cc Sat Sep 9 22:11:19 2000
@@ -47,9 +47,13 @@
{
// Adapt the iterator
PkgIterator Pkg = Sim.FindPkg(iPkg.Name());
+ const char *oldver = Pkg->CurrentVer ? Pkg.CurrentVer().VerStr() : "-";
+ const char *newver = Pkg->VersionList ? Pkg.VersionList().VerStr() : "-";
+
Flags[Pkg->ID] = 1;
- cout << "Inst " << Pkg.Name();
+ cout << "Inst " << Pkg.Name() << " (" << oldver << " > " << newver << ")";
+
Sim.MarkInstall(Pkg,false);
// Look for broken conflicts+predepends.
This informs me about versions when doing "apt-get --no-act install package".
I like this very much, and would appreciate this going into the official
apt-get command.....
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Thanks,
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