In <aanlktimectabs39d+ggyspryvzuurbfz7qzk-gmje...@mail.gmail.com>, Tom H 
wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain
>> suite, say experimental in this case?  The naïve approach
>> 
>> $ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental"
>> 
>> does not work.
>
>aptitude search "?narrow(?archive(experimental),?installed)"

If you like the short type better, you could use 
(aptitude search '~S ~i ~Aexperimental').
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