Re: Which packages from sarge, which from sid?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:53, Jaume Guasch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I run "dpkk -l | grep ^ii", it, of course, lists all the installed
> > packages, and version numbers.
> > 
> > Is there a standard method for determining which distrobution (stable,
> > testing or sid) that package comes from?  I.e., something that generates
> > this list:
> > PACKAGE_NAME      VERSION     DISTRO
> > 
> 
> Don't know what you call standard, but apt-show-versions works here, e.g.:
> 
> $ apt-show-versions bash
> bash/stable uptodate 2.05a-11
> 
> $ apt-show-versions alsa-source
> alsa-source/unstable uptodate 0.9.0rc7-5
> 
> without a package name it will print all the installed packages.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Ron
> 
> Hope this helps,

Man, that's *exactly* what I want!  Many thanks...

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