Repository inventory

[Martijn van de Streek]

[ please don't drop the list CC ]

On zo, 2004-12-12 at 15:22 +0100, Loptr Chaote wrote:

> > "apt-cache show" can show you the installable versions of packages, as
> > long as you have the repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list (do not
> > do this if you do not want to upgrade to hoary, unless know what you're
> > doing!)
> 
> Hmm.. So if I add the Hoary repositories to sources.list, do a apt-get
> update and then apt-cache show to look at the available
> packages/versions, then I can just remove the Hoary repositories from
> sources.list and do a new apt-get update when I'm done, right?
> 
> That should be risk free, shouldn't it?

Yes, it should.
You could also get the Packages file from archive.ubuntu.com and grep
through it manually.
-- 
Martijn van de Streek <martijn at foodfight.org>
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