How to upgrade all packages only installed from experimental?

Question

I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition and am using the unstable for all my packages. I do have some that I installed from experimental like gnome3. How do I upgrade all and only all that have been installed from experimental to their new versions in experimental?

Answer 1

apt-get install apt-show-versions
apt-show-versions -i
apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | fgrep experimental`

See the man page for apt-show-versions. There is an example with proper syntax using backticks.

Answer 2

I'm not sure if this is correct so its best to test this with --simulate first.

aptitude upgrade "?upgradable ?archive(experimental)"

Or the shorthand version.

aptitude upgrade "~U ~Aexperimental"