[arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 11:32:50 EDT 2008


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Dave Heistand <dheistand at challiance.org> wrote:
> Such a diff would tell me things like (output
>
> Packages removed from package tree/ftp servers:
> firefox (installed)
> foobar (not installed)
>
> Packages added to tree/ftp servers
> iceweasel (not installed)
> tmpwatch (not installed)
>
> Packages that need to be upgraded
> xorg (installed version 1, available version 1.2)
> cowsay (similar to above))
> sysstat (similar to above)
>
> No big deal if there is no tool, I'll just need to check out the
> packages web page more often.
>

there is the rss feeds too :
http://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/




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