On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 00:42:45 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >Say I am running Etch and my /etc/apt/sources.list contains only >entries related to Stable. Using command line interface, What is the >efficient way to obtain information about versions of a package >currently available in testing, unstable, experimental? > >Currently, I go to http://packages.debian.org/packagename to get the >necessary information. But I am looking for a command line alternative. > >apt-show-versions -a does not seem to work in this case since all my >entries in sources.list only point only to stable. I do not want to add >testing/unstable entries in sources.list as I would like to track only >Etch and nothing else on this machine. > >reportbug seem to be doing this some how. For example if I try to >report a bug in stable's package, it tells me the version numbers >available in testing/unstable. I am looking for something like this. > >Any ideas?
Add the entries for testing/unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list. Their presence doesn't mean that you'll automatically upgrade to use them (it might be prudent to add APT::Default-Release "stable"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf first though). /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus
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