On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:46:31AM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi! > > I want to search for all packages which provide xserver. > > apt-cache search 'Provides.*xserver.*' > > This should find xserver-s3, but it doesn't. > > Any hints?
I'm no apt-cache expert, but my reading of the man page suggests that 'apt-cache search' searches "package names and the descriptions" for the provided regex. Unfortunately, it seems it does not search the full control information for each package (too bad; I like your idea). I'm not aware of a tool that does what you want. When I run apt-cache search 'Provides.*xserver.*' I get ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic - Free Japanese TrueType fonts (gothic) ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho - Free Japanese TrueType fonts (mincho) as output; a look at the "Description" field shows that the word "provides" and the word "xserver" do appear (apparently apt-cache does regex searches case-insensitive). -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Just because an idea originated at "redhat" does not mean it is evil. -- Sean 'Shaleh' Perry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
