Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 mai 13, 20:39:40, Patrick Bartek wrote: I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding it. You didn't tell what exactly are you looking

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 mai 13, 20:39:40, Patrick Bartek wrote: I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 mai 13, 09:56:44, Patrick Bartek wrote: Nothing in particular. Just in general. For example say, in the future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a newer version, and I want to search ONLY backports to see

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 24 mai 13, 09:56:44, Patrick Bartek wrote: Nothing in particular. Just in general. For example say, in the future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a newer

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 20/05/2013 23:14, Greg Madden a écrit : On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote: apt-cache show libreoffice The 'apt-cache + options command works on the package cache, which includes , afaik, all the packages reference in the sources.list. 'apt-get' install stable packages unless the

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le 20/05/2013 23:14, Greg Madden a écrit : On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote: apt-cache show libreoffice The 'apt-cache + options command works on the package cache, which includes , afaik, all the packages reference in the

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 20 May 2013 22:47:46 you wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option would do that. Don't know why it doesn't. Also,

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 23 May 2013, Greg Madden wrote: On Monday 20 May 2013 22:47:46 you wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option would

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option would do that. Don't know why it doesn't. Also, I just noticed a funny thing: Today, when I

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:48:25PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I tried that. And a couple of variations. I got the same output as just using plain ol' apt-cache search. As part of the test, I searched for an app version that I knew was ONLY in backports. It didn't show up in the search. But

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:48:25PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I tried that. And a couple of variations. I got the same output as just using plain ol' apt-cache search. As part of the test, I searched for an app version that I knew was ONLY in

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Mon, 20 May 2013 09:26:12 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:48:25PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I tried that. And a couple of variations. I got the same output as just using plain ol' apt-cache

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013 09:26:12 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2013, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:48:25PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I tried that. And a couple of variations. I got

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 20 May 2013 13:04:25 you wrote: apt-cache show libreoffice The 'apt-cache + options command works on the package cache, which includes , afaik, all the packages reference in the sources.list. 'apt-get' install stable packages unless the '-t' option is used. -- Peace, Greg --

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-20 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:04:25 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: One would think from what is said in the mans that the -t option would do that. Don't know why it doesn't. Also, I just noticed a funny thing: Today, when I do 'apt-cache show libreoffice-writer' both the 3.5

Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding it. My backports repo is enabled per Debian: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-19 Thread staticsafe
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding it. My backports repo is enabled

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-19 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Sun, 19 May 2013 20:39:40 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just not finding it. aptitude

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 20 May 2013, staticsafe wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 08:39:40PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure there is. I'm just

Re: Search Wheezy-backports?

2013-05-19 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 20 May 2013, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Sun, 19 May 2013 20:39:40 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: I've been searching and reading the mans on apt, apt-get, aptitude, etc., and I haven't been able to find a way to search Wheezy-backports. Is there one? I'm sure