On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Brendan O'Dea <b...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM, William Orr <w...@worrbase.com> wrote: >> I'm working on a patch for apt-build, and it would be really nice to have a >> function that returns upgradable packages. Using AptPkg::Policy works unless >> apt pinning is used. > > In what way does it not work? On a system with pending upgrades, the > output of the attached script may be modified by editing > /etc/apt/preferences to pin a package to the currently installed > version. >
I'm sorry, I was confused; it was early. What would be nice is a way to grab the names and versions of pending package upgrades. Right now, you have to loop through AptPkg::Cache::Package instances of each installed package and check the current version against the version of what $policy->candidate($pkg) returns. -- -Will Orr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
