On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:47:04PM +0100, Steven J. Murdoch wrote: > My current machine has a number of packages installed from backports > which no longer exist, so will not be upgraded should there be any > security problems. I am about to reinstall my machine so would like to > avoid this in the future. I have a partial solution, but have hit a > problem in my understanding of APT, so would appreciate any advice. > > More generally, my goal is to be able to find out where an installed > package came from. Using "apt-cache policy" will do this for packages > which still exist in the APT database, but if a repository goes > offline, I belived this information is lost. > In aptitude you can see a list of "Obsolete or Locally Installed Packages", if that is any help.
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