Re: How to know whether a package is obsolete?
On 25-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote:
> I want to write a bash script that will run through my
> /var/cache/apt/archives directory and determine which ones are obsolete
> (either not the latest release, or no longer available at all from the
> standard Debian package repository). How can I tell which packages are
> obsolete?
>
> The idea here is that I want to provide a Home for Lost Packages on my
> web server, for the benefit of people who are trying to get gnucash or
> other dependency-starved packages running. But I don't want to just make
> /var/cache/apt/archives visible to the world; I only want to offer
> packages that aren't available in the package repository, so that people
> will only use my limited bandwidth when it's necessary.
>
dselect has this ability. If you look at it and apt you should be able to come
up with a solution.
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