dose-outdated(1)

1DOSE-OUTDATED(1)                  DOSE Tools                  DOSE-OUTDATED(1)
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NAME

6       outdated - detect uninstallable packages due to obsolete dependencies
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SYNOPSIS

9       outdated [option] ... file ...
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DESCRIPTION

12       outdated identifies in a debian package repository those packages that
13       are not installable with respect to that repository by the their inter-
14       package relationships (dependencies, conflicts, ...), and that
15       furthermore cannot become installable (in the current version) how
16       matter how the rest of the repository evolves. This means that this
17       package has to be updated in the repository to ever become installable
18       again.
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Input Specification

21       Input files have to contain stanzas in the format of deb-control(5),
22       separated by one blank line. For instance, the Packages files as found
23       on a Debian mirror server, or in the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ of a
24       Debian system, are suitable as input. The repository used in the
25       analysis consists of the union of all packages from the input files.
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Output Specification

28       The output of outdated is in the YAML format.
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OPTIONS

31       -f --failure
32               Print the list of broken packages
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34       -e --explain
35               Explain the results in more detail.
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37       -s      Print a summary of broken packages.
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39       --dump  Dump to standard output in CUDF format the packages that are
40               internally generated and exit (mostly useful for debugging
41               purposes).
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43       --checkonly package[,package] ...
44               Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages
45               are checked.  Takes a comma-separated list of package names,
46               each of them possibly with a version constraint, as argument.
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48               Example: --checkonly "libc6 , 2ping (>= 1.2.3-1)"
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50       -v      Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be
51               repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
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53       --progress
54               Display progress bars.
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56       -h, --help
57               Display this list of options.
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EXIT CODES

60       Exit codes 0-63 indicate a normal termination of the program, codes
61       64-127 indicate abnormal termination of the program (such as parse
62       errors, I/O errors).
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EXAMPLE

65        dose3-outdated -f -v /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
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AUTHORS

68       Pietro Abate and Ralf Treinen
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