Identifying packages for ubuntu server 10.04 with apt

[Nicolas Barcet]

On 03/19/2010 05:14 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> 
> 
> "carlopmart" <carlopmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> carlopmart wrote:
>>> Scott Kitterman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Jorge Armando Medina" <jmedina at e-compugraf.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> carlopmart wrote:
>>>>>> Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
[...]
>>>>>>> jonathan at disclaimer:~$ apt-cache show apache2 | grep Supported
>>>>>>> Supported: 5y
>>>>>>> jonathan at disclaimer:~$ apt-cache show gcalctool | grep Supported
>>>>>>> Supported: 3y

[...]

>>>>>> Good. But how can I configure apt to only/install/update, etc .. 
>>>>>> these packages supported for 5y and discard all 3y support packages??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>> Then dont use universe and multiverse repositories, only main.
>>>>>
>>>> That doesn't solve the OP's problem.   He wants to avoid desktop 
>>>> packages with a 3 year support window.
>>>> Scott K
>>>>
>>> Exactly. Is it possible to do this??
>>>
>> Nothing?? Isn't possible to do this??
>>
> One of the Canonical people had a script for this. 

I guess Scott is referring to maintenance-check.  It's functions have
been integrated into apt-cache as shown above, so it's deprecated and
was not providing anything more than information.

Sincerely, I think that if you only pick packages that are in main which
are not desktop related (non gui) you should be fine and you can easily
check that you are ok looping "dpkg -l" through "apt-cache show $xx" and
checking the results.  Wouldn't you?

Nick

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