[pkg-kolab] A way to determine installed/available package versions?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On Tuesday, June 26, 2012 02:20:57 PM Thomas Koch wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems):
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > In order to update [1] to be more like [2], I'm looking to port the
> > attached script I use for the RPM/YUM based distributions into something
> > that handles APT distributions as well.
> > 
> > [1] http://wiki.kolab.org/Native_Packages:Kolab_2.4_for_Debian_Squeeze
> > [2] http://wiki.kolab.org/Native_Packages:Kolab_2.4_for_Enterprise_Linux_6
> > 
> > I was thinking of using apt-cache policy <package>, but I was wondering if
> > anybody knew of a better/easier way to query for package versions (the
> > output of apt-cache policy is a little hard to parse).
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Jeroen van Meeuwen
> 
> you might check
> man dpkg-query
> options --status or --showformat
> 

I'm not getting this to display what version of a piece of software is 
available in the repositories configured in the system, though.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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