bw composed on 2018-01-03 15:50 (UTC-0500): > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
>> I've had no luck finding a way to search in Debian that lists versions along >> with names. In openSUSE, this is somewhat simple to discover, as zypper >> includes >> everything in one man page rather than having various names to learn along >> with >> separate (or not) man pages, such as apt-cache, apt-get, apt-mark, apt-file, >> apt-key, aptitude and dpkg. Generally my searches are seeking whether newer >> version is yet available. ATM, the goal is finding whether mc-4.8.17 or older >> can readily be replaced by the current version, mc-4.8.20. Output I would >> like >> in a form similar to what follows (from openSUSE): >> # zypper se -sx firefox-esr >> S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository >> ---+-------------+------------+--------------+--------+-------------- >> vl | firefox-esr | package | 52.5.3-1.1 | i586 | Mozilla131 >> vl | firefox-esr | package | 45.8.0-1.3 | i586 | MozillaLegacy >> vl | firefox-esr | package | 38.8.0-1.22 | i586 | MozillaLegacy >> vl | firefox-esr | package | 31.8.0-1.30 | i586 | MozillaLegacy >> vl | firefox-esr | package | 17.0.11-1.49 | i586 | MozillaLegacy >> vl | firefox-esr | package | 52.5.3-1.1 | i586 | Mozilla >> Even better would show packages sorted first by version and skipping arch. >> Can any similar output be provided in Debian? If yes, is there a config >> option >> to make it default? > I don't expect any newer version of mc to be available on stretch, ever. > You can see the current stable with apt show mc. If I wanted to see > versions of it in all releases, including backports, testing and > unstable, I would go to https://packages.debian.org/mc this works for all > packages. I would never use another version with stable, except > stable-backports. mc was bad example. Currently booted is Jessie. Installed kernels are 3.16 and 4.8. What command shows me the newest available linux-image version available anywhere that's been configured in sources.list? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
