Re: Listing packages

[Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 04:58:12PM -0500, Miguel Cobá wrote:
> I have a mixed installation with packages from stable and testing and I want
> to list the packages and what version (stable, testing, unstable) of debian
> are they from.
> 
> I have searched the web for a solution, but nothing until now. With
> 
> dpkg -l   or  apt-show-versions
> 
> I can find the version number of the package, but not the repo.

How about combining it with apt-cache madison <package>? That'll tell
you the version and the repository.

Thanks.

Kumar
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