On Oct 23, 2016, at 5:48 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I list all the packages installed on my system that are > currently part of the stable distribution but not present in either > testing or sid? try something like this aptitude -F ‘%p' search '~i' | while read x; do aptitude --disable-columns versions '^'"$x"'$'; done This will give you a list of all installed packages with the repositories they are available from. Here’s a sample rbthomas@monk:~$ aptitude -F '%p' search '~i' | grep openocd | while read x; do aptitude --disable-columns versions '^'"$x"'$'; done Package openocd: ih 0.3.1-1 100 ph 0.8.0-4 stable 500 On this machine, I have an ancient version (0.3.1-1) of openocd installed that is not available in the stable repo. There is also a version (0.8.0-4) available from the stable repo that does not work in my environment, so I have the older version “held”. This is indicated by the fact that there is no repo in the line beginning with “ih”. A small awk or python script processing the output of the above commands should give you what you want. Enjoy! Rick
