Re: Fwd: Packages temporarily disappearing from Testing/Lenny
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:01:55PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> > But if an app is removed from a repository, apt won't tell you.
> > deborphan might, though.
> dfox@m206-157:/tmp$ deborphan xmms
> xmms
> And aptitude why-not xmms doesn't say anything other than "the package
> xmms was manually installed".
when a installed package is no more in any repository from sources.list
(not even in a different version from the installed one), then dselect
puts it into the "obsolete or locally installed" packages. The ncurses
interface of aptitude should do something of the same kind.
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