On Saturday 27 May 2017 16:34 CEST, Cem Karan wrote: > > On May 27, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> wrote: > >> On Saturday 27 May 2017 12:33 CEST, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> >>> I wrote a script to run as a cron job to check if I need to update >>> my Python installations. I migrated from openSUSE to Debian and >>> that does not work anymore (pip2 and pip3): it displays the same >>> with and without --outdated. Anyone knows what the problem could >>> be? >> >> It does not exactly displays the same, but it displays all >> packages, while in the old version it only displayed the outdated >> versions. I already made a change with awk, but I would prefer the >> old functionality. >> >> By the way, the patch is: >> pip2 list --outdated --format=legacy | awk ' >> { >> if (substr($2, 2, length($2) - 2) != $5) { >> print $0 >> } >> }' > > Could you check the output of 'pip3 --version'? When I tested pip3 > on my machine, 'pip3 list --outdated' only yielded the outdated > packages, not a list of everything out there.
Both as normal user and root I get: pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5) -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list