* Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020325 16:13]: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Grant Bowman wrote: > > don't have to go to http://packages.debian.org/apt to find out myself > > each time. There are probably other ways to find this information, > > but I still believe that the release should be part of the search > > output text. > > Hmm. The search output is intended to show the raw package information. It > is not really reasonable to express all the detailed release information > in that format. You should use apt-cache policy to determine what versions > come from where for a particular package. A single version may come from > many different sources.
Hi Jason, thanks for your quick reply. Exapanded or detailed release information is not what's needed here, I agree with you. That would be unreasonable in this case. While this output is a dump of raw data, it's a dump of raw data from different sources all concatenated together. Some indication of the omitted data-source context is what's needed in the output. It could either be implemented on a per-package basis (preferably) or as a separator between raw data dumps. The man page states that 'apt-cache policy' "is ment [sic] to help debug issues relating to the preferences file." In searching for a package I don't care what the preferences file says. While this is related and important information, I do not feel it is relevant to searching for what packages are available. I appreciate your efforts. Respectfully, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
