On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:31:01PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote:Hi, apt-get --only-source --download-only source <package> will download the latest version of the source package. Is there a one liner that will give me the version of the package (including the epoch) without downloading the package and parsing the dsc?If you are not opposed to installing the devscripts package, then you can do this: $ rmadison -u debian -a source -s unstable firefox-esr firefox-esr | 91.10.0esr-1 | unstable | source
Thanks! And that has given me another hint: $ apt-cache madison openssh openssh | 1:9.0p1-1 | http://aptmirror17.home.woodall.me.uk/local bullseye/main Sources openssh | 1:9.0p1-1~tjw11r1 | http://aptmirror17.home.woodall.me.uk/local bullseye/main Sources openssh | 1:8.4p1-5 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian bullseye/main Sources openssh | 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u1 | http://security.debian.org buster/updates/main Sources openssh | 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u7 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stretch/main Sources openssh | 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian buster/main Sources openssh | 1:8.4p1-5 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable/main Sources openssh | 1:8.4p1-5 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing/main Sources openssh | 1:9.0p1-1 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing/main Sources openssh | 1:8.4p1-5 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sid/main Sources openssh | 1:9.0p1-1 | http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sid/main Sources That shouldn't be too hard to parse. I didn't know what madison was but I recalled seeing it in the manpage. I'll need to investigate rmadison. Might be just what I need assuming it can also support my local repo. Doesn't honour my apt proxy setting so doesn't work out of the box for me. Tim.