Re: Security risks due to packages that are no longer part of Debian?

[Emmanuel Lacour <elacour@easter-eggs.com>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:17:10PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> Well, you can list installed packages with either:
> 
> $ dpkg --get-selections | egrep "[[:space:]]install"
> [ will not show the version #s and might show half-installed packages ]
> 
> $ dpkg -l "*" | grep ^ii
> [ shows the information you are asking for ]
> 
> But it would be best if this was implemented using libapt. I have sample

This can be done with aptitude.

I'm using this:

For woody version of aptitude:

  aptitude -F '%p# %v# %V#' search '~U'

For current version:

  aptitude -F '%p# %v# %V# %t#' search '~U'



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