Bug#259382: [bug:wish] apt-get upgrade -V -sortby="section"
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.26
Severity: wishlist
Is it possible that you implement a command option for sorting packages
to upgrade by the way user wants. For now, always that we run
$ apt-get upgrade
we receive a list of packages that will be upgraded sorted
alphabetiocally.
But why not sorting by other ways?
For example:
- sorting by section (user see what packages are in each
section. It's useful when a user only wants to upgrade the
packages from a specific section)
- sorting by source location (all packages from
ftp://us.debian.org, all from non-us.debian.org, all from
testing.myhomepage.com, ...). Useful if we only want to
upgrade (manually) the packages from specific source
- sorting by importance of changelog (perhaps we want to upgrade
only the packages that were change their code because critical
bug, or only minor bug, ...)
- sorting by inverse-alphabetically order (why not?)
I think that it was a great thing to have it (overall to desktop user as
me).
Thanks in advance,
Xan.
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# * Oficials
# ** CD-ROM
# *** CD-ROM Num 1. Debian 3.0 r1
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20021218)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
# ** Actualitzacions de seguretat
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
# ** Paquets US de Debian
# *** Servidor d'EUA
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# ** Paquets non-US de Debian
# *** Servidor d'EUA
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# *** Servidor australià
#deb http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
# * Semi-oficials
# * Per a DRI
#deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-unstable/ ./
#deb-src http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-unstable/ ./
# * Oficiosos
# ** XFree 4.3
# deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./ ## Ubicació alternativa de les Xfree 4.3 de Daniel Stone.
# deb ftp://ftp.skolelinux.no/debian-unofficial/x4.3/sid/i386/ ./ #D'on vaig instal·lar les X 4.3
# ** LDAP
# *** LAM.sf.net
#deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# ** iRate.(sf.net)
deb http://members.westnet.com.au/takahe/debian sarge main
# ** giftui.tuxfamily.org/ --> Per a gift-fasttrack.
# El targz del lloc oficial: berlios.de/gift-fasttrack no compila bé.
#deb http://twolife.free.fr/debian/ unstable main non-free
#deb-src http://twolife.free.fr/debian/ unstable main non-free
# ** Per l'amule.sf.net
#deb http://gunnm.org/~soda/ unstable main contrib
#deb-src http://gunnm.org/~soda/ unstable main contrib
# ** Pel lilypond
#deb http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./
#deb-src http://www.pedrokroeger.net/lilypond/ ./
# ** Per al torcs
#deb http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/torcs// ./
# ** Per a touxdoux
#deb http://www.gnu.org/software/toutdoux/debian/ ./
# ** Per a GMencoder
#deb http://tutuxclan.free.fr/debs ./
# Per a SELinux.sf.net
#deb http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ ./
# ** Pel monkeybubble.sf.net
deb http://home.gna.org/monkeybubble/debian ./
# ** Per el kahakai.sf.nt
deb http://home.arcor.de/flightbase/ ./
# *********** Versió experimental ********* #
# Versió _experimental_ de l'apartat main dels paquets.
# 2003-09-29: Per a que se me solucioni el problema amb l'Xfree 4.3: migrar de xfree4.3 de Daniel Stone --> xfree 4.3pre1v3 de la versió experimental.
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# 2004-2-19: Una vegada que xfree86 3.0 ha estat a Sid, no cal tenir-lo.
# ************ Testing per a poder downgrade-dear *************** #
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
# ************ Stable per a poder downgrade-dear **************** #
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5
Locale: LANG=ca_ES@euro, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES@euro (ignored: LC_ALL set to ca_ES)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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