Am Die, 2002-02-12 um 11.11 schrieb Chris Halls: > > Subject: apt-show-versions > > > > apt-show-versions is a script which eases maintenance of mixed > > stable/testing or testing/unstable systems. While beeing able to > > update the packages from your *main* distribution with apt-get upgrade > > it is quite difficult to do the same for the *not-main* > > packages. While you can use the pinning feature of apt if these are > > only a few it is quite annoying to put all the package names in > > apt/preferences which should be pinned. Like in one of my installation > > where I have 247 packages from stable and 229 from testing. > [...] > > > > apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | fgrep unstable` > > > > to upgrade all unstable packages to their newest versions. > > Christoph, have you tried APT::Default-Release? Does that not do this job > automatically? (I'm not saying apt-show-versions is not useful; I'm just > curious, and apt-show-versions does far more than just the job of tracking > both testing and unstable versions).
Hmm. A quick test showed me, that it might do what I want. I will have a further look at it later. Christoph
