Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

2014-11-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 nov 14, 00:57:45, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Thanks. This is useful and solves my first question. Oh, missed that one[1]. Aptitude, at least in interactive mode can do it, because it presents a Security Updates (or something like that) package group. One can just Shift-U on the

find all installed packages from a specific release

2014-11-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
How do I find packages installed on my machine that belong to a specific Debian release? In my case, I have the following entries in my sources.list rajulocal@hogwarts:~$ stuff.pl /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free deb-src

Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

2014-11-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 01 nov 14, 18:12:35, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Now, I want to retire the squeeze mirror. But before I do that I'd like to find all the packages installed on my machine from this mirror. Then I can decide whether I want to upgrade or delete or keep then as-is. Is there a way to find

Re: find all installed packages from a specific release

2014-11-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: I think this should do it aptitude search '?narrow(?installed,?archive(oldstable))' Thanks. This is useful and solves my first question. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/