On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:46:31AM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > 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?
From man apt-cache: search performs a full text search on all available package files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package names and the descriptions for an occurance of the string and prints out the package name and the short description. apt-cache doesn't search the full control file, only name and description. Quick hack: $ apt-cache pkgnames | xargs apt-cache show | grep -B 10 \ 'Provides.*xserver' | grep Package HTH, Nick -- Nicolas Kratz | GPG-key: 1D6D075A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Never touch a running sysop, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | or your wife is a big hippo.
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