On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:17:47 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:22:38 +0200, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > >> apt-cache --names-only search '^a' except from packages name started >> with 'a' (intented) will also give packages that they have a source >> file whos name starts with 'a'. is that an error? > > (...) > > Hum... from man "apt-cache" page: > > search regex [ regex ... ] > search performs a full text search on all available package lists for > the POSIX regex pattern given, see regex(7). *It searches the package > names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression* > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > (...) > > (bolded text is mine) > > So, no, I think you are getting the documented behaviour ;-)
No, wait, the above argument has a big hole. Man page continues (I did not carefully read, my bad...): *** If --full is given then output identical to show is produced for each matched package, and if --names-only is given then the long description is not searched, only the package name is. *** So indeed, only package name should be queried in the regex which does not seem to be the case. I also get false positives, for example: sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache --names-only search "^a" | grep sleepd sleepd - puts an inactive or low battery laptop to sleep But here, even the source package is named "sleepd", why the regex is catching this? A bug? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.03.12.19.25...@gmail.com
