Hello all,
I have some questions about how to do certain maintenance tasks in
Debian that I do routinely in gentoo.
I've read man apt-get, but didn't find answers to these questions. What
I'm looking for is the equivalent commands in debian to achieve the same
things.
In gentoo, I routinely perform pretend updates to see what updates are
available, so a process like:
eix-sync
to synchronizes the local repo with the online one
eix packagename
shows all available versions of that package, and what repo they reside
in (stable, testing, etc)
emerge --pretend -vuDN world
results in a list of all available updates, as well as any dependencies
that would be installed, which I can then pick and choose from. I
usually wait until newly available updates have been available for at
least a few days before installing them, to avoid nasty surprises.
Is there a decent manual describing basic maintenance tasks like this?
Thanks
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