Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Dan Christensen [Tue, 12 Apr 2005 10:46:18 -0400]: > the command to find out which binary packages a source package > produces? $ apt-cache showsrc (bin|source)-package You need a deb-src entry in apt/sources.list for that to work. -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK: DA

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On my systems, wnpp-alert lists packages that I don't have installed. >> For example: >> >> # wnpp-alert >> ... >> O 279824 perlftlib -- Perl module for the FreeType library >> ... >> # dpkg -l \*perlftlib\* >> No packages found matching *perl

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:31:58AM -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > >> > I am interested in the intersection of pac

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-12 Thread Dan Christensen
Stephen Quinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: >> > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my >> > machines with the list of orphaned packages. >>

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:45:19AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: > > You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > > while you're at it. Both are cronable. > > ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Quinney
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 07:14:23PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure > > a program in use isn't orphane

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Birch
Matthew Palmer([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-04-08 19:14: > You'd be wanting wnpp-check, in the devscripts package. Check out rc-check > while you're at it. Both are cronable. ahh ... devscripts. I think you meant wnpp-alert not wnpp-check. Thanks for the tip. Perfect, thanks! Steve -- To UNS

Re: Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 02:12:13AM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my > machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure > a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. > Ideally the program would be run fr

Intersection of installed packages with orphaned packages

2005-04-08 Thread Stephen Birch
I am interested in the intersection of packages installed on my machines with the list of orphaned packages. This is to be sure a program in use isn't orphaned without me becoming aware of it. Ideally the program would be run from cron about once a week and email a status report. Is there a progra