Debian question
Neil Joseph Schelly
neil at jenandneil.com
Sun Feb 13 15:32:01 EST 2005
On Sunday 13 February 2005 03:05 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> This isn't authoritative but I'd wander into
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives
>
> ...and say:
>
> ls -lat | head
>
> ...which should indicate which package files got hauled most
> recently into that directory, which is your local repository.
That idea doesn't work for me anyway, but I'd look at the diff
between /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. Those represent
the status of all packages available and the difference between them should
be the difference in package lists from now and before your last apt-get
whatever...
-N
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