Re: Compare two 'available' files?
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Thomas Schoepf wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to compare two different 'available' files (those in
> /var/lib/dpkg/), say one is for 2.1 and one is 2.1r3. The result should be
> a list of URLs or something similar so that I can download all new
> packages.
APT will do this for packages that you already have installed (that is, it
will figure out what you need to download to upgrade to 2.1r3). Get an 0.3
version (from http://www.debian.org/~jgg) and read
/usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz
Jason
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