Graham Williams wrote: > After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm > particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain > since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have > already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did > an apt-get update. (I.e., ignore packages that have been updated but > not since the previous time I did an apt-get update) > > Are there any simple command line methods for getting these two lists > (or do I need to persist in learning what seems to me to be the quite > un-intuitive interfaces in deity and aptitude).
AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages. Dselect, however, will do everything you want. -- see shy jo
