packages necessary for dist-upgrade

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

When I do apt-get --download dist-upgrade, it downloads some packages 
which are new in the repository and are necessary to do the 
dist-upgrade. How can I get the list of these packages without actually 
downloading them?

I tried sudo apt-get --download-only -s dist-upgrade
But that does not give the list of packages 'that need to be 
downloaded'. It only tells about all the packages that will be upgraded.

thanks
raju

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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
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