Re: List new packages after an apt-get update

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Graham Williams wrote:
> After doing an apt-get update there are two types of packages I'm
> particularly interested in: newly available packages (new to Debain
> since the last time I did an apt-get update) and packages I have
> already installed but that have been updated since the last time I did
> an apt-get update. (I.e., ignore packages that have been updated but
> not since the previous time I did an apt-get update)
> 
> Are there any simple command line methods for getting these two lists
> (or do I need to persist in learning what seems to me to be the quite
> un-intuitive interfaces in deity and aptitude).

AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages.
Dselect, however, will do everything you want.

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