Re: apt-* notify for new packages ?
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:18, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 04:50, Konstantin Kostadinov wrote:
> > Hi
> > Is anyone knows is there are some scripts,binary that can notify for new
> > packages.
> >
> > Now I'm use apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade -u -d crontab entry but it is
> > not very useful
>
> Recently, I asked a question regarding how to know which distro (stable,
> testing, unstable) each of my packages comes from.
>
> The answer to that (package apt-show-versions) plus grep is the answer
> to your question.
>
> After you install apt-show-versions:
> # apt-get update
> # apt-show-versions |grep upgradeable|sort
After reading Tim's reply, I should note that apt-show-versions + grep
will only tell you if there are new versions of pkgs you currently have
installed.
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