Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-01-03 16:56 (UTC-0500):
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 04:51:13PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> apt-cache policy linux-image and apt-cache showpkg produce output that in no
>> way
>> resembles my OP request (searches substring from complete package name; one
>> line
>> per available package, including its version, source repo optional).
> In that case, I recommend "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan
> and Ritchie.
Resembles != equals. I'm four decades past learning new languages.
In simple terms, I want a search to return complete package names, base package
name with version string appended. Anything more that fits on a single line is a
bonus. Anything that routinely makes individual results require more than ~80
characters is too verbose.
Another example:
$ grep RETT /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Mageia 6"
$ urpmq -y kernel-desk
kernel-desktop-4.9.35-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-4.9.40-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-4.9.43-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-4.9.50-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-4.9.56-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-devel-4.9.35-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-devel-4.9.40-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-devel-4.9.43-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-devel-4.9.50-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-devel-4.9.56-1.mga6
kernel-desktop-devel-latest
kernel-desktop-latest
vboxadditions-kernel-desktop-latest
virtualbox-kernel-desktop-latest
xtables-addons-kernel-desktop-latest
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