Re: Security risks due to packages that are no longer part of Debian?
> A tool which lists all packages which are no longer downloadable from
> any APT source would be more helpful, I think. Does it already exist?
I have a slighty inefficient script for that. I believe there are better
ways to do what listallpackages does, unknown to the author of the script
back then ;-) (Reminder to myself: Don't post ugly hacks to mailing
lists.) At least this does its purpose without deselect nor aptitude.
#!/bin/sh
helper/listallpackages \
| while read package version
do
# Is that version in the apt package lists?
if ! apt-cache showpkg $package 2>&1 \
| egrep "(^$version.*/var/lib/apt/lists/)" \
&>/dev/null
then
echo "W: '$package' is not downloadable"
fi
done
Where helper/listallpackages is:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$statusfile = '/var/lib/dpkg/status';
if( -e $statusfile) {
open(PKG_SOURCE, "< $statusfile") ||
die "Cannot open $statusfile - $!\n";
$/ = ""; #snarf a paragraph at a time
while(<PKG_SOURCE>) {
$clump = $_;
if (/Status: install ok installed/) {
$clump =~ /Package: (.*)/; print "$1 ";
$clump =~ /Version: (.*)/;
$v = $1;
$v =~ s/\+/\\\\\\+/g; print "$v\n";
}
}
close (PKG_SOURCE);
}
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