Re: How to find all packages installed from backports?

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:52:22 +0200
Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:

> Hallo list!
> 
> Before upgrading from sarge to etch, I would like to uninstall all
> those packages that were installed from backports.org. I know that
> apt-cache policy <packagename>
> will show if <packagename> is from sarge-backports, but would like to
> make sure that I catch all of those.
> 
> Thanks for pointers,
> 
> Johannes
> 
> 

Don't they all have a -bpo suffix on the version number? Try this:

    dpkg -l | grep bpo

There's probably a more graceful way of doing it.

-- 

Liam