On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:00:32 +0100, Jan Niehusmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point. But that problem can be solved by some program checking that > all installed packages are actually available from the selected > distribution(s). > > That could be integrated into apt (e.g. apt-get upgrade warning about > packaged without a current installation canditate, or where the most > recent version from the archives is older than the installed one), or it > could be a separate tool. Perhaps it can even be done with existing > tools?
Aptitude already does this to some extent - packages which aren't available from a source in sources.list are placed in the "Obsolete and Locally Created Packages" section. Having a systematic warning would be annoying for people who have lots of locally-created packages, e.g. kernel packages... Stephen
