-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:42:45AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Say I am running Etch and my /etc/apt/sources.list contains only entries > related to Stable. Using command line interface, What is the efficient way > to obtain information about versions of a package currently available in > testing, unstable, experimental? > > Currently, I go to http://packages.debian.org/packagename to get the > necessary information. But I am looking for a command line alternative. > > apt-show-versions -a does not seem to work in this case since all my entries > in sources.list only point only to stable. I do not want to add > testing/unstable entries in sources.list as I would like to track only Etch > and nothing else on this machine. > > reportbug seem to be doing this some how. For example if I try to report a > bug in stable's package, it tells me the version numbers available in > testing/unstable. I am looking for something like this. > > Any ideas? > > thanks > raju apt-get install devscripts rmadison $PKG - -K - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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