Debian question

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Sun Feb 13 22:09:01 EST 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:31 -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> On Sunday 13 February 2005 03:05 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 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...

Unfortunately, I done some package adds and deletes since then, so the
diff only finds the later differences.

This is one of the features that RPM had that I really miss (install
data of package), and can't seem to find in any Debian package manager
(dpkg, dselect, synaptic, ...)

--Bruce
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