Re: synaptic: comparing repositories

[William Ballard <nospam_50115@alltel.net>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:11:04PM +0700, David Garamond wrote:
> I have a Debian repository mirror on my filesystem. This is perhaps 
> updated once every month or so whenever I am at the office (and thus 
> have access to a high-speed Internet connection). Before I go start up 
> the rsync script, can I see in synaptic what's new/changed/removed in 
> the remote repository compared to my local repository?

Diff the Packages.gz.

I ran a command like this today:
zcat Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -sPackage | cut -d' ' -f2 | sort | uniq

and diffed two things like that to see what was different.