On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:48, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I want to only upgrade packages that haven't changed on sid in the > last 5 days, but without date information in Packages.gz it isn't > easy... I suppose one could plaster something together with apt-get > --print-uris|...|xargs wget --spider ... bleh, on a modem too.
Download Packages.gz today, then again five days from now, write a script to pull out the filenames of all packages, remove ones you don't have installed, and then diff the remaining entries. Any time a package is updated, it has to at least have a minor increment. i.e. a package may not go from 1.1 to 1.2, but it will have to at least go from 1.1 to 1.1-1, which would be reflected in the package filename. It would be slightly more "correct" to do this based on the actual version field of the package entry, but as filenames already have versions, it's much simpler to do it this way since you can get both the package name and the package version from the same line in Packages.gz. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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