On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > In <aanlktimectabs39d+ggyspryvzuurbfz7qzk-gmje...@mail.gmail.com>, Tom H > wrote: >>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain >>> suite, say experimental in this case? The naïve approach >>> $ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental" >>> does not work. >> >>aptitude search "?narrow(?archive(experimental),?installed)" > > If you like the short type better, you could use > (aptitude search '~S ~i ~Aexperimental').
Less wordy, definitely, except that in a month or two or three, you'll have to remember that "?narrow" == "~S" and you might not. :) -- 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/AANLkTi=iWD-NNxHgGEDf3tcc4jKMPkwapKS-eFmEoX=z...@mail.gmail.com
