On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:31 -0500, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > On Sunday 13 February 2005 03:05 pm, Michael ODonnell wrote: > That idea doesn't work for me anyway, but I'd look at the diff > between /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/status-old. Those represent > the status of all packages available and the difference between them should > be the difference in package lists from now and before your last apt-get > whatever...
Unfortunately, I done some package adds and deletes since then, so the diff only finds the later differences. This is one of the features that RPM had that I really miss (install data of package), and can't seem to find in any Debian package manager (dpkg, dselect, synaptic, ...) --Bruce
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