[ubuntu-us-ma] How to tell version numbers?

[Daniel Hollocher]

Hey Brian,
I came across this link which might interest you:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/LinuxWireless

That's all
Dan

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Brian and Daniel for your ideas ... what you described worked in a
> helpful way.
> The search continues for the best way to track Ubuntu / Jaunty individual
> build/release numbers. I'll post it when I find out.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Daniel Hollocher <
> danielhollocher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1) I've no idea
>> 2) apt-cache policy package_name  will show you the version of a package
>> installed.  Maybe you want to look at the changelog of the package that
>> holds your drivers?
>> 3) yes, approximately.  But, sometimes there are errors with
>> dependencies.  I think ideally, its yes.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Brian DeLacey <bdelacey at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> What's the best way to track and view version numbers of the Ubuntu
>>> releases installed on your machine? In particular, I'm wondering:
>>>
>>>
>>>    - how to display release numbers that will differentiate between
>>>    daily Jaunty builds?
>>>    - how to display the version of subsystems / tarballs in the distro?
>>>    (I'm particularly interested in wireless drivers, e.g. compat-wireless-2.6
>>>    tarball<http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download#Archiveofcompat-wireless-2.6tarballs>
>>>    )?
>>>    - does running update manager on an installed Jaunty build has
>>>    (aproximately) the same result as installing the new daily Jaunty build
>>>    available that day?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>>>    Brian
>>>
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