On 10/13/25 10:07, [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 12:43:13 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
apt list ~e^science
how can i see the details of what is being searched and how
man apt-patterns
?source-package(REGEX), ~eREGEX
Selects versions where the source package name matches the specified
regular expression.
man 7 regex
'^' (matching the null string at the beginning of a line)
i've read that several times
i don't see anything that tells me the details of how apt is performing the
search
I guess you'll need to look at the source code for the exact answer.
But I'd guess it tries to matches the supplied regexp to the source
package name field (one of the fields of each package, though for some
reason not reported by apt show <package>), and reports the ones that match.
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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