Here's a solution that I came up with (in my /etc/apt/preferences. But I thought about it for a bit, and bashed on the keyboard a bit, and came up with this solution:
# for pk in `dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print $1}' `; do echo -n $pk " "; installed=`COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l $pk | awk '$1 == "ii" {print $3}'` ; apt-cache showpkg $pk | grep -A10 Vers | grep ${installed}\( | awk -F_ '{print $4}' ; done
It's not particularly fast, but brute force is a valid computing style. Output should look like this: adduser sarge alien sarge anarchism sarge apache woody apache-common woody apt sarge...and so on. If your results look totally off, change the $4 to $0 and then grep for 'sid' and 'unstable'.
Peter Rooney Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
ls -lt -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | grep list | less The command above gives you hopefully a list of packages you installed the last time, IINM. It won't tell you about which branch they were pulled from: But perhaps it might help remember the package you installed from unstable ... Sorry, but this seems to be a weak point on Debian
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