Upgrade-oldest 0.2 review

Upgrade-oldest selectively upgrades a Debian system by upgrading the packages with the oldest and most significant version numbers

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: zowers

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Upgrade-oldest selectively upgrades a Debian system by upgrading the packages with the oldest and most significant version numbers. It can be limited to certain sections, and the level of version differece necessary to trigger an upgrade can be controlled.

It is a simple Python script, but it is very powerful.

Requirements:
Python interpreter and apt_pkg Python module: apt-get install python-apt


Installation

dpkg -i upgrade-oldest_x.x.x_all.deb