On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 20:03:37 +0000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:40:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:54:02PM +0000, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > > >> I recollect running a command that identified non-Debian packages > >> as part of the upgrade to Etch and *the command gave the expected > >> output*. But, alas, I can no longer find what that command was. > > > > I'm now completely confused. The problem is just that you want to > > find the command that you ran before? Am I understanding correctly? > > > > Daniel > > I was hoping that: > > | aptitude search '~i!~Odebian' > > was the command that I ran successfully as part of the upgrade from > Sarge to Etch and had forgotten. > > If it is the same command, it is now behaving quite differently. I > refrained from posting the output that it now produces because the > output is lengthy and I wanted to conserve bandwidth. But here are the > first few lines of that output: > > | i a2ps - GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript' conver > | i A abiword-common - WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK2 > | i A abiword-gnome - WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK2/GNOME > | i abiword-help - online help for AbiWord > | i adduser - Add and remove users and groups > | i afio - archive file manipulation program > | i A akregator - RSS feed aggregator for KDE > | i alien - install non-native packages with dpkg > | i alsa-base - ALSA driver configuration files > | i alsa-oss - ALSA wrapper for OSS applications > | i alsa-utils - ALSA utilities
What do youe see when you run apt-cache policy a2ps adduser alsa-base ? -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]