On 7/7/26 15:57, jean-christophe wrote:
On mar., 2026-07-07 at 14:18 -0400, Eben King wrote:
I have a need to find the upgradable package with the most
dependencies.
...
It works, but is definitely not fast. Is there a faster way?
https://x0.at/FdVb.txt
is there some faster way in /bin/sh
me say not depencies
could you test ?
eben@cerberus:~$ apt-cache policy | grep -E '^\s*Installed:\s*(.+)$'
1
"1" is the exit status. Maybe we have different versions of apt-get?
eben@cerberus:~$ apt-get ---version
apt 2.6.1 (amd64)
Supported modules:
*Ver: Standard .deb
*Pkg: Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)
Pkg: Debian APT solver interface (Priority -1000)
Pkg: Debian APT planner interface (Priority -1000)
S.L: 'deb' Debian binary tree
S.L: 'deb-src' Debian source tree
Idx: Debian Source Index
Idx: Debian Package Index
Idx: Debian Translation Index
Idx: Debian dpkg status file
Idx: Debian deb file
Idx: Debian dsc file
Idx: Debian control file
Idx: EDSP scenario file
Idx: EIPP scenario file
