Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
I am trying to look which packages are new in buster that were not in
stretch. I am using aptitude since it't great tool for browsing packages.
until now it was easy:
do 'f'orget new packages in aptitude
change sources.list to point to new release
do 'u'pdate packages list
On 09.07.19 18:05, Axel Beckert wrote:
I assume you did not exit aptitude inbetween, right
I did. What I did was:
0. start with sources.list pointing to stretch archive:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 9 19:21 sources.list -> sources.list.stretch
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444 Jul 8 18:27 sources.list.buster
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450 Nov 1 2018 sources.list.stretch
1. run aptitude to see available packages. Optionally use 'f' to forget new
packages. quit aptitude
--- Installed Packages (3970)
--- Not Installed Packages (74188)
--- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (8)
--- Virtual Packages (11400)
--- Tasks (235)
2. change sources.list to point to buster archive.
# rm sources.list; ln -s sources.list.buster sources.list
# ls -ld sources.list*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 9 19:23 sources.list -> sources.list.buster
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444 Jul 8 18:27 sources.list.buster
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450 Nov 1 2018 sources.list.stretch
3. run aptitude, see only installed packages marked as obsolete:
--- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (3978)
--- Virtual Packages (570)
--- Tasks (2)
4. run 'u'pdate packages list, see no old packages, but all uninstalled as
new:
--- Security Updates (1)
--- Upgradable Packages (3099)
--- New Packages (82647)
--- Installed Packages (442)
--- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (436)
--- Virtual Packages (28449)
--- Tasks (235)
but now, when I do this, aptitude seems to forget all info about packages
previously available.
So every package is listed under "New Packages"? I can't reproduce
this.
every package that is not installed is shown as new.
I just did the following inside an uptodate Stretch pbuilder chroot:
* Start "aptitude"
[...]
* Press Ctrl-Z
* Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change any occurrence of "stretch" to
"buster".
* Called "fg" to get aptitude into the foreground again.
* Pressed "u" in aptitude's TUI.
I haven't tried changing sources.list while aptitude is running.
Now aptitude shows me this view:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help
C-T: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Preview/Download/Install/Remove Pkgs
aptitude 0.8.7 @ c6
--- Upgradable Packages (111)
--- New Packages (13184)
--- Installed Packages (2)
--- Not Installed Packages (43508)
--- Obsolete and Locally Created Packages (15)
--- Virtual Packages (14460)
I can confirm this works. Just as the "apt update" hack, I consider this a
hack too.
as I said before, the jessie version of aptitude worked as described even
when I quit aptitude in between.
I usually change packages list, run 'u'pdate and then browse/upgrade
packages. I didn't see the need (nor I had an idea) of changing sources.list
while aptitude is running.
Maybe you can post even more verbose steps how to reproduce this.
Otherwise I have no idea what could be different with your setup to
cause such a different behaviour.
I hope I have described it thoroughly enough.
Thanks for the hint.
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