What if instead of # apt-cache policy somepackage Installed: 2.10.2-2 Candidate: 2.11~0exp1-0exp1 it just said # apt-cache policy somepackage Installed: 2.10.2-2 Candidate: UPGRADE NOW Indeed, why tease the user with any version numbers in the first place, if there is no way provided for him to pry the other half out of your binary.
I tried strings(1). Do I have to try strace? Do I "strace reboot?" Probably not. Is there a simple one liner I can use to extract the Candidate out of your binary. So I needn't download the whole kernel source tar just to extract that one number each time I want to know what the heck it's basing its statement on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
