pip list --outdated gives all packages

[Cem Karan]

On May 27, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:

> On Saturday 27 May 2017 16:34 CEST, Cem Karan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On May 27, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Saturday 27 May 2017 12:33 CEST, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I wrote a script to run as a cron job to check if I need to update
>>>> my Python installations. I migrated from openSUSE to Debian and
>>>> that does not work anymore (pip2 and pip3): it displays the same
>>>> with and without --outdated. Anyone knows what the problem could
>>>> be?
>>> 
>>> It does not exactly displays the same, but it displays all
>>> packages, while in the old version it only displayed the outdated
>>> versions. I already made a change with awk, but I would prefer the
>>> old functionality.
>>> 
>>> By the way, the patch is:
>>> pip2 list --outdated --format=legacy | awk '
>>> {
>>> if (substr($2, 2, length($2) - 2) != $5) {
>>> print $0
>>> }
>>> }'
>> 
>> Could you check the output of 'pip3 --version'? When I tested pip3
>> on my machine, 'pip3 list --outdated' only yielded the outdated
>> packages, not a list of everything out there.
> 
> Both as normal user and root I get:
>    pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (python 3.5)

I'm completely flummoxed then; on my machines I get the 'old' behavior.  Can you try a completely clean Debian install somewhere (maybe on a virtual box) and see what happens?  I'm wondering if there is something going on with your migration.

Thanks,
Cem Karan