Re: list installed packages present only in stable

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 11:24:00 -0400
Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oooohhh, shiny new toy that I just found because of you. This came via
> "man apt-show-versions":
> 
> To upgrade all packages in testing:
> 
>            apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | grep testing`
> 
> Actually having some cognitive abilities functioning today, I further
> stepped out on a limb and just ran:
> 
> apt-cache show `apt-show-versions -u -b | grep sid`
> 
> It gave me some things back! One more test:
> 
> apt-cache show `apt-show-versions -u -b | grep jessie`
> 
> Returned this error:
> 
> E: No packages found
> 
> Woohoo!!! (Because it's giving varying answers based on query changes)
> 
> Yes, no, I understand that still might not quite be the answer sought
> after in this thread, BUT it *is* pulling based on [release versions].
> That means at least some of the developer work is already addressed if
> this in fact doesn't quite provide the desired results BUT would work
> with some flag tweaking.

Nice. After these suggestions I hastily put together a small python
script, that might come close to what Raju wants:

#!/usr/bin/python

from commands import getoutput

allpkgs = getoutput('apt-show-versions -b').splitlines()

jessie = [p for p in allpkgs if 'jessie' in p]
stretch = [p for p in allpkgs if 'stretch' in p]
sid = [p for p in allpkgs if 'sid' in p]

onlyjessie = [p for p in jessie if not p in (stretch+sid)]
for p in onlyjessie:
    print(p.split(':')[0])

Regards

Michael


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