On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:20 AM, <sthu.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good day, MARGUERIE. > > Thank You for Your reply: > >Otherwise, you can `apt-get remove` them (plus --purge if you want to > >reset your configuration files) and re-install them : that way you'll > >use the main-repo version and you won't want have security problems > >anymore. > > That decision I feared... > > Is there a automatic way that can give me a list of the packages came > from backports repo? > > > >
Not automatic, but here is a quick script that might help you along: #!/bin/sh for pkg in `dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'|sort` ; do if apt-cache policy $pkg | grep "www.backports.org" > /dev/null ; then echo $pkg " appears to be from www.backports.org" fi done -Jeff