On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Ma, 16 oct 12, 08:01:59, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>> According to my reading of the manual: >>> >>> aptitude search '~smain' >>> and >>> aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free' >>> >>> should give you the answers you seek, however, I seem to get 0 for the >>> first and only 626 for the second, so my search-fu is failing me today. >> >> Because "~s" ("?section()") doesn't correspond to main/contrib/non-free. > > In theory true, but in practice: > > $ apt-cache show nvidia-glx | grep ^Section > Section: non-free/x11 > > This means a search for contrib or non-free with ~s will succeed, but > not for for main, since packages in main don't advertise the archive > component in the Section field.
Thanks for the correction. Although I consider this a cheat or a bonus depending on the point of view, it's a practical one because AFAIR dpkg-query doesn't have a "${Archive}" option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SxUMPXCO74rWnfnvJsQcqEbE0H=rcvepksvokaftrx...@mail.gmail.com