> I want to write a bash script that will run through my
> /var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete
> (either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the
> standard Debian package repository). How can I tell which packages are
> obsolete?
>
In case your system is up to date you might run a simulation for
apt-get dist-upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade -sq). At first glance I
believe that everything that will need upgrading is obsolete from your
point of view.
Similarly, you can just download the packages list (apt-get update -sq
?) in order to have the current packages list and continue from there.
Perhaps /var/lib/dpkg/{available,available-old,status,status-old} can
be useful too.
> The idea here is that I want to provide a Home for Lost Packages on my
> web server, for the benefit of people who are trying to get gnucash or
> other dependency-starved packages running. But I don't want to just make
> /var/cache/apt/archives visible to the world; I only want to offer
> packages that aren't available in the package repository, so that people
> will only use my limited bandwidth when it's necessary.
>
> Craig
>
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