Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: >> > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my >> > machines with the list of orphaned packages. >> >> You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check >> while you're at it. Both are cronable. > > I think you mean wnpp-alert and rc-alert (at least that's what they > seem to be called on my sid machine).
On my systems, wnpp-alert lists packages that I don't have installed. For example: # wnpp-alert ... O 279824 perlftlib -- Perl module for the FreeType library ... # dpkg -l \*perlftlib\* No packages found matching *perlftlib*. Any idea why this might be happening? Thanks, Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
