On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:13:25PM +0100, Ricardo Diz wrote: > This might have an obvious answer, but I couldn't figure it out > myself. > Is there an easy way to see the changelog of a new package without > installing it on my system? The purpose of this is to know if I'm > interested on upgrading the package or not.
Install apt-listchanges and it'll show you changelogs after downloading but before installing. There used to be a changelog interface on http://packages.debian.org/, but it hasn't been working for a while (long story). > BTW, I know I can put a package on hold using dpkg --force-hold, but I > do not know how (or if it is possible) to see which packages are on > hold 'dpkg --get-selections' > and how to remove the hold option. 'echo <packagename> install | dpkg --set-selections' ... or just use dselect. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
