Re: updateinfo and -S option

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Rob van der Heij wrote:

> Hi. I just hacked the genbasedir to properly handle the --updateinfo= 
> option, but find that the -S option has disappeared from apt-get ?  What 
> apt command will show the stuff I crafted into the pkglist this way?

After digging awhile in the attic:
Looks like the updateinfo isn't one of the most used features of apt:  
it was never ported to 0.5.x series which first came available to rpm
world in ..lets see... July 2002, and you seem to be the first to miss the
functionality :)

Now I don't know why it wasn't ported originally, maybe Gustavo can 
comment? Doesn't look like it'd be a big deal to add it back, if perhaps a 
bit differently implementation-wise.

	- Panu -