On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 12:15:32PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 00:00:13 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > - apt-patterns(7) > > Why isn't this linked/referenced from apt(8) or apt-get(8) or aptitude(8)? > I just checked all three, and it's not on any of them.
It is references in the SEE ALSO section of the apt(8) man page which is
how I found it, but only after someone else on this list pointed me at
the `apt list '~o'` command. Also, it is references earlier under the
list subcommand:
list
list is somewhat similar to dpkg-query --list in
that it can display a list of packages satisfying
certain criteria. It supports glob(7) patterns for
matching package names, apt-patterns(7), as well as
options to list installed (--installed),
upgradeable (--upgradeable) or all available
(--all-versions) versions.
I am still trying to figure out where that data comes from. Maybe it
literally is just what I asked for, matching packages from the installed
list and without a matching entry in a current Apt repository list file?
So, then will my broadcom driver appear in the obsolete list if I
comment out the non-free-firmware section from sources.list? I'll have
to test that out.
>
> That's slightly easier to remember than
> <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html>, I
> suppose. Not that I'll remember it by the next time this question is
> asked again. Not without it being referenced from somewhere that
> humans will actually look.
>
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