Re: many packages need to be upgraded
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 09:20:06PM -0500, Michael Waters wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:04 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > In the case of gcc-2.95:
> >
> > gcc-2.95 (2.95.4.ds13-11woody1) stable; urgency=low
> >
> > * Upload to woody-proposed-updates:
> > - Fix profiling for arm.
> > - Fix internal compiler errors on s390.
> > - Update Pascal release candidate 7 to final release.
> > - Build the protoize-2.95 package again just in case that somebody
> > relies on the protoize-2.95 and unprotoize-2.95 binaries.
> > - No other changes to other compilers and architectures.
> >
> > -- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:58:04 +0200
>
> Is there a way of showing this info for upgraded packages before
> downloading them?
Most practical thing to do is use "-d" option with apt-get (download
only).
Then go to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and poke into package using "mc".
If it is OK, then install it with "apt-get" without "-d" option. Debian
will not download package again.
YMMV.
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