Debian question

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

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