On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 04:50, Konstantin Kostadinov wrote: > > Hi > > Is anyone knows is there are some scripts,binary that can notify for new > > packages. > > > > Now I'm use apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade -u -d crontab entry but it is > > not very useful > > Recently, I asked a question regarding how to know which distro (stable, > testing, unstable) each of my packages comes from. > > The answer to that (package apt-show-versions) plus grep is the answer > to your question. > > After you install apt-show-versions: > # apt-get update > # apt-show-versions |grep upgradeable|sort
After reading Tim's reply, I should note that apt-show-versions + grep will only tell you if there are new versions of pkgs you currently have installed. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. | | Guess which is more effective... | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
