I'd like to see to what extent my system is LTS-supported by means of what packages are supported for 5 years and which are not. I could disregard some non-5yr-supported packages, as some are rarely used or very unlikely to get into (security) issues.
I think this is useful as one can get a report and draw a conclusion, e.g. "my system is 100% LTS", "due to packages X,Y,Z, my system is just 99% LTS", "due to the use of KDE, my system is now 50% LTS".
As related to my answer in the question Does 12.04 LXDE have LTS?, I posted a way to see which packages of Ubuntu feature five years of support. E.g.:
$ apt-cache show unity | grep ^Supported
Supported: 5y
$ apt-cache show lxde-core | grep ^Supported
I could write a script to get all information for all the packages, however, the apt-cache
commands are horribly slow:
real 0m1.535s
user 0m1.484s
sys 0m0.036s
With 2700+ packages installed, this would take roughly 70 minutes (!).
How can I speed up things and get a report for all non-5yr-supported packages on my system?
I'd prefer a simple apt-*
shell command for the use in a simple shell script. If it would require more advanced scripting like going into Python, this is fine too. Eventually, I would like to release a (small) script to create a report on a system easily and quickly.
Note: I'm not interested in the discussion about whether or not a specific flavour of Ubuntu provides LTS or not - this is really just packages. You can just mix LTS and non-LTS packages on a system.
I don't know about your system, but this is what I did:
time dpkg -l | grep 'ii' | awk ' {print $2}' | xargs apt-cache show | grep '^Supported:' | grep -v '5y' | wc -l
158
real 0m27.549s
user 0m5.580s
sys 0m21.701s
doesn't seem so bad right?
The total number of packages:
dpkg -l | grep 'ii' | wc -l
2602
I am running a AMD E-350 which isn't exactly a blazing fast cpu...
Edit: maximum number of arguments to xargs:
xargs --show-limits
...
POSIX upper limit on argument length (this system): 2091826
...
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