On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 05:27:30PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 01:55:57AM +1000, Tom wrote: > > Interesting. Do you know how often it gets updated? Is it on an automatic > > schedule? > > > > The list of all available packages in the repos you have in > /etc/apt/sources.list can be found in /var/lib/apt/lists. To visualise > that list (without version numbers) you can use something like: > > $ grep "^Package: " /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages | cut -d " " -f 2 | sort > > while if you also want the version numbers, you could use the only > slightly more complicated: > > $ grep -E "^(Package: |Version: )" /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages | cut -d " > " -f 2 | sed 'N;s/\n/ /' > > If you are interested in which versions of a specific package are > available in each of the repos you have specified in > /etc/apt/sources.list just use > > $ apt-cache policy PACKAGENAME
I'm often iterested in the packages that are in the repos I have *not* specified in sources.list -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
