Re: List packages by releases

[Amit Joshi <amitjoshi86@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 12 November 2006 09:51, T wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:26:48 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> Is there any way to list which packages are from unstable or testing?
> >
> > 'apt-show-versions' is what you want.
>
> Thanks, I checked into it, but unfortunately I found that
> apt-show-versions cannot distinguish unstable and testing.


makedev/testing uptodate 2.3.1-83
kcontrol/testing upgradeable from 4:3.5.5a-2 to 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1
libsmbclient/testing uptodate 3.0.23c-3
xserver-xorg-video-sis/testing uptodate 1:0.9.1-4
libdrm2/testing uptodate 2.0.2-0.1
kdesktop/testing upgradeable from 4:3.5.5a-2 to 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1
libdb1-compat/testing uptodate 2.1.3-9
openoffice.org-writer/testing uptodate 2.0.4-5


Not sure why your apt-show-versions can't distinguish between unstable and 
testing. This is the excerpt of the output of apt-show-versions on my system. 
It clearly mentions "testing" after every package. I am only using the testing 
branch of repositories. If you are using unstable, then I think it would have 
mentioned it right after the package. 

For e.g. 
openoffice.org-writer/unstable uptodate 2..(whatever) ;-)




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