Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-30 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 06:14:42PM -0400, Mike Viau was heard to say: > Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search > ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both the > search patterns specified. That's because "aptitude search" impl

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Mike Viau wrote: > Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:47:36 -0400 wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau wrote: > > > I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given > > > package. > > > > > > In the output of the vlan package for example on

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Brian Ryans
Quoting Mike Viau on 2010-04-05 17:14:42: > Thanks for the tip. I noticed ~p works with all but the essential > priority for some reason. 'Essential' isn't a priority, per Policy 2.5 [1] Rather, Essential is a control file field; Policy 3.8 [2] and 5.6.9 [3]. To select Essential packages, use the

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-05 21:28, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: How does one do this in The One True Package Manager? thumper/~ apt-cache search "One True Package Manager" thumper/~ Nope. Can't find it. You must not have the correct repos: $ apt-cache policy apt apt: Installed: 0.7.25.3

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > How does one do this in The One True Package Manager? thumper/~ apt-cache search "One True Package Manager" thumper/~ Nope. Can't find it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-05 19:25, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 05 April 2010 17:14:42 Mike Viau wrote: Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both the search patterns specified. For short fo

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 05 April 2010 17:14:42 Mike Viau wrote: > Both "aptitude search ~pextra ~smisc" and "aptitude search ~pextra search > ~smisc" resulted in a list of package which did not necessarily meet both > the search patterns specified. For short form, you can generally just smash things together

RE: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 5 Apr 2010 17:47:36 -0400 wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau wrote: > > I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given > > package. > > > > In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like: > > > > [snip] > > > > Priority: extra

Re: How to list packages in various priorities or sections

2010-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Mike Viau wrote: > I have used aptitude show $(package_name) to list the details of a given > package. > > In the output of the vlan package for example one gets output like: > > [snip] > > Priority: extra > Section: misc > > [/snip] > > How might one determine all