On 06.09.2011 15:11, Liam O'Toole wrote: > It seems that aptitude is trying to fetch the changelog for the version > of apache2 with the highest version number, which is that in > lenny-backports, but doesn't find it. > > Instead, you can 'target' aptitude at a particular release, like this: > > $ aptitude -t lenny changelog apache2 > > That will tell aptitude to look for the official lenny version.
At first I thought it works, but the ChangeLog starts with $ head -n 3 a Unable to find an archive "lenny" for the package "apache2" Get:1 ChangeLog of apache2 [103kB] apache2 (2.2.9-10+lenny9) stable-security; urgency=high But since it show versions tells me this: $ apt-show-versions -u |grep apache2/lenny apache2/lenny upgradeable from 2.2.9-10+lenny10 to 2.2.9-10+lenny11 I don't actually see the ChangeLog from 2.2.9-10+lenny10 to 2.2.9-10+lenny11 but actually the whole ChangeLog from the release up until apache2 (2.2.9-10+lenny9) . This means it would need to download the real deb somehow the extract the proper content. Something AFAIK apt-listchanges is able to do, but not in a way I seem to be able to use it without actually triggered a real installation. Basically I'd like to pre-fetch all this kind of information before doing something for real; basically even unmonitored on the machines. I'm also aware of cron-apt and I can configure cron-apt with this action $ cat /etc/cron-apt/action.d/9-notify # Use it with MAILON=output to tell you when upgrades is available. -q -q --no-act upgrade to inform me. But alas, I can't run this application without any special rights: $ /usr/sbin/cron-apt mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/lib/cron-apt/_-_etc_-_cron-apt_-_config': Permission denied dotlockfile: /var/lib/cron-apt/lockfile: permission denied dotlockfile: /var/lib/cron-apt/lockfile: permission denied Hmmm .... thanks, - Markus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e66579b.3070...@fischer.name
