Hi All, Here's a small challenge. I'm trying to find obsolete or orphaned packages on a system that's been dist-upgraded. Aptitude can give me list with this query:
aptitude search ?obsolete The definition of that query is: "This term matches any installed package which is not available in any version from any archive.". It has been installed locally or installed from a repository that is not in apt's sources.list. How would you accomplish that assuming you cannot use aptitude? I've tried various arguments to dpkg-query, couldn't find the right selector. The closest I get is using 'deborphan --all-packages -p 5'. Not quite though, deborphan spuriously also identifies a few packages that are not relevant. BTW, should I report the latter as a bug? F.x. deborphan reports 'chrony' as orphaned, but I installed it yesterday and it sure looks available. -- Fredrik Jonson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnmbaj3f.6d5.fred...@biggles.jonson.org
