Identifying packages for ubuntu server 10.04 with apt

carlopmart carlopmart at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 19:18:19 UTC 2010


Nicolas Barcet wrote:
  >
> 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

Nick,

  One question: all packages in main repository have 5y support?? or exists packages 
with only 3y support??

Thanks.


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