apt-cyg should list currently installed version and highest available version

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When running apt-cyg find <foo>, the output currently only lists the
package names.  Having 2 more columns to indicate 1) the currently
installed version and 2) the version available according to setup.bz would
make it easy to know what's up to date, etc.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by niederst...@gmail.com on 27 Aug 2009 at 12:10

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Original comment by sjung...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2009 at 8:14

• Changed state: Accepted

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Original comment by sjung...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 5:18

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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I received an email about apt-cyg listing currently installed version and 
highest
available version, however it does not.  The svn tree seems not to have been 
updated
since receiving this notification, and I only get currently installed version if
applying the patch referenced above.

Original comment by kevhil...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 6:56

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The emails are sent out by Google to anyone who subscribes to an issue; they 
don't
necessarily mean that any new code has been committed.  This issue has been 
accepted
and marked as an enhancement but it isn't ready to commit to the trunk because 
the
submitted patch does not implement all the requested features.

Original comment by sjung...@gmail.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 7:38

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I'm woking on this issue. But it was more difficult for me to write it in bash 
with awk. You can find here a python script. You should copy setup.ini file in 
/etc/setup before execute checkcygupdate.py.

Original comment by JLPou...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2010 at 7:01

Attachments:

• checkcygupdate.py

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Original comment by i...@skl.me on 23 Feb 2014 at 6:57

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Is it possible to upgrade package to newer version using apt-cyg? AFAIK no. 
Therefore for what should be this good for?

It would be nice, if apt-cyg would be able to do the same thing as "apt-get 
upgrade" does. That means upgrade all packages to the newest version.

Original comment by da...@ferenczy.cz on 17 Apr 2014 at 6:36

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Well, I didn't realized one important thing: that it's not possible to 
overwrite files in use on Windows. So it would be quite hard to upgrade 
packages from inside of Cygwin.

Original comment by da...@ferenczy.cz on 17 Apr 2014 at 9:08