On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:46:13AM -0400, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> was > heard to say: >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:04 AM, Mike Viau <vi...@sheridanc.on.ca> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 01:26:45PM -0400, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> was >> >> heard to say: >> >> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Anand Sivaram <aspn...@gmail.com> >> >> > wrote: >> >> > > >> >> > > You could find what all packages from sid are installed in your system >> >> > > by >> >> > > apt-show-versions | grep unstable >> >> "aptitude search ~Aunstable~i" > > That'll show packages that are available from sid and that are > installed on your computer. That could include packages you installed > from testing, but that are also available from sid. If you want to > check that the installed version is also available from sid, you'll need > to wrap it in '?narrow': > > $ aptitude search '?narrow(?archive(unstable), ?installed)'
Many thanks. I have finally understood the purpose of narrow (and had my misunderstanding of "and" corrected!). -- 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/x2o6d4219cc1005012230v8cd8e678se258c322ef33f...@mail.gmail.com
