Re: How safely to stop using backports repo?

[Sebastien Delafond <sdelafond@gmx.net>]

On 2009-05-28, JeffD <jeff.dickison@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not automatic, but here is a quick script that might help you along:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> for pkg in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|sort` ; do
>
> if apt-cache policy $pkg | grep "www.backports.org" > /dev/null ; then
>                 echo $pkg  "  appears to be from www.backports.org"
> fi
>
> done

I don't think that can work, unless you make it something like:

  apt-cache policy $pkg | grep -A 1 -E '^ \*\*\*' | grep "www.backports.org"

to make sure www.backports.org actually qualifies the *installed*
version ?

Cheers,

--Seb