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-----Original Message-----
From: Felix C. Stegerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:32 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: just show which packages have updates available?

On 2005-10-24 10:34:19, Matthew Lenz wrote:
> is there a set of command parameters to aptitude or the apt-* utils to
> just output which packages have updates available?  i'd like something
> like "aptitude -V -n dist-upgrade" .. where -n is default 'no' to all
> questions. But -n doesn't exist from what I can see. :)
> 
> -Matt

Hi,

You could use -P to force a prompt and use
  # echo n | aptitude -P -s <command>
to simulate <command> and say no, e.g.
  # echo n | aptitude -P -s upgrade


Felix

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Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistiguishable from a feature."
 -- R. Kulawiec


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