Re: List new packages after an apt-get update
console-apt (capt) does just that. It has three packet
dividers:
a) Updated packages
b) Installed packages (newer version available)
c) Non-installed packages
USM Bish
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 03:12:11PM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> JH> AFAIK, deity and aptitude do not single out newly available packages.
> JH> Dselect, however, will do everything you want.
>
> aptitude does call out newly available packages, though it considers a
> package 'new' until the new list is explicitly cleared (with 'f'). My
> usage with aptitude is generally: update available packages ('u');
> expand newly available packages category ('['); install anything I
> want out of that list ('+'); clear new list ('f'); expand updated
> packages category ('['); examine, resolve conflicts, go ('g').
>
> As far as I'm concerned, though, dselect is a perfectly usable tool; I
> mostly use aptitude these days out of peer pressure. :-)
>
> David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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