Re: script to list installed packages without any version online

Gary Greene <[email protected]> Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:51:38 -0500
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Organization Shore Line Technologies, LLC.
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On Saturday 01 April 2006 04:58 pm, Alexander Bergolth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've attached a lua-script that lists all packages that are currently
> installed but don't have any version downloadable from a repository.
>
> This can be useful before dist-upgrading to identify discontinued
> packages as the dependencies of those packages may cause apt to fail
> when upgrading the distribution.
>
> Usage: Before dist-upgrading, change sources.list properly for the new
> distribution, do a apt-get update and run
>    apt-cache script list-notonline.lua
>
> Hope you'll find it useful,
> Cheers,
> --leo

This would be nice to be turned into a stand alone deborphan or in our case=
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rpmorphan. This way it's more like the way ex-debian folks expect it.=20
Thoughts?

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