Equivalent of yum check-update

[NoOp]

On 12/10/2010 10:45 AM, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> On 9 December 2010 18:24, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> You can also use 'apt-show-versions -u'. However 'apt-show-versions' is
>> not quite as effective as 'aptitude search '?upgradable'' as it doesn't
>> show updates for pinned packages, but aptitude search does[1].
>>
>> [1] I have udisks pinned:
>>
>> $ sudo aptitude search '?upgradable'
>> i A udisks      - abstraction for enumerating block devices
>>
>> $ sudo apt-show-versions -u
>> $
> 
> It's good to have both these options but I'd favour the aptitude
> version, given that pinning a package so as not to install some future
> upgrade is a very explicit action. I'd generally like to know which
> packages have upgrades that I haven't already /manually/ excluded.
> 
> As an aside (useful for me as I'm coming at this from the PoV of
> monitoring # packages upgradable across a large estate of machines,
> where the monitoring user isn't root) "aptitude search '?upgradable'"
> doesn't need to run via sudo.

Sorry... neither does apt-show-versions - my apologies; I just tend to
add 'sudo' out of habit.