On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 01:20:15AM +0200, Björn Heide wrote: > As long as libapt-pkg-perl lacks policy-support, you could do > "apt-get policy $pkg_name" or, if --target-release is used > "apt-cache -o APT::Default-Release=$target_release policy $pkg_name" > and take the version from the Candidate: line. > > It's an ugly hack, but I have no better idea.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seems to work.
However, it should at least support preferences.
% apt-cache policy -o APT::Default-Release=testing bash
bash:
Installed: 3.0-14
Candidate: 3.0-14
Version Table:
*** 3.0-14 0
500 file: apt-build/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3.0-14 0
500 ftp://ftp.dmz.naquadah.org unstable/main Packages
2.05b-26 0
990 ftp://ftp.dmz.naquadah.org testing/main Packages
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