On Sb, 25 oct 14, 14:59:28, Keith Christian wrote:
>
> Have searched the WWW and man pages without finding anything like "dry
> run" or "show possible upgrades" specifically for aptitude.
aptitude search '?upgradeable'
The full aptitude documentation is in the package aptitude-doc-en.
If you only want information about a particular package you can use one of
$ aptitude versions ^cron$
Package cron:
p A 3.0pl1-124 stable 500
p A 3.0pl1-124.2 testing 500
i A 3.0pl1-126 100
p A 3.0pl1-127 unstable 500
(aptitude's 'versions' always treats the package name as a pattern, so you have
to be a bit more specific if you get too many hits)
$ apt-get policy cron
cron:
Installed: 3.0pl1-126
Candidate: 3.0pl1-127
Version table:
3.0pl1-127 0
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
*** 3.0pl1-126 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.0pl1-124.2 0
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages
3.0pl1-124 0
500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages
$ apt show cron
Listing... Done
cron/unstable 3.0pl1-127 i386 [upgradable from: 3.0pl1-126]
N: There are 3 additional versions. Please use the '-a' switch to see them.
(the 'apt' command is only available as of Jessie)
> Previously I've seen recommendations to use aptitude or apt-get for
> updates/upgrades but not mix them due to creating inconsistencies in
> the package file listings, or something. (Maybe this isn't an issue
> in 2014?)
Shouldn't be. If you find any please do file a bug.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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