Re: Bug#42723: wish for apt

[Drew Bloechl <drew@varesearch.com>]

Jason Gunthorpe writes:

[snippy]

 > > > I wish after running 'apt-get update' would show new package/s 
 > > > and/or upgraded package/s.
 > > > 
 > > > Thanks and hope that this gets to be future feature of apt.
 > 
 > > 	apt-get -u update 
 > > 
 > > this will show all the packages, even the ones being updated.
 > 
 > Er, that's 'upgrade' you are thinking of. He wants a feature like dselect
 > has - but I think I will have to refuse - that is something that belongs
 > in a GUI, not a command line tool like APT.

Actually, I think something like this might fit in with apt-cache.
F'rinstance, maybe you could do

  $ apt-cache newer-than 934233670
  foopkg1
  foopkg2
  etc

meaning "show me all packages that were created after 934233670
(time_t)".  Or better, 

  $ apt-cache new-during 934233670 934233936 
  foopkg1
  etc

to see all packages created between these two times.

At least, _I_ think that would be useful :)

-- Drew