On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:10:03 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:33:28 (-0500), bw wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to
> > > include
> > > packages' versions?
> >
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Worse, I should have searched efoX-eSr, to make it clear one shouldn't need to
know a package's complete and exact basename including case
That part's easy--the case is lower...
How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ t
On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:33:28 (-0500), bw wrote:
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> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >
> > How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to
> > include
> > packages' versions?
>
> well, see that's the thing. In debian, kernel packagenames include
> the a
On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to
> include
> packages' versions?
well, see that's the thing. In debian, kernel packagenames include
the arch and ver in them. This wouldn't work for mc for instance or other
p
bw composed on 2018-01-03 18:20 (UTC-0500):
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
>> What command shows me the newest available linux-image version available
>> anywhere that's been configured in sources.list?
> Here's a quick try at answering your question. I'm sure there are a
> zillion w
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 03:28:45PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
I've had no luck finding a way to search in Debian that lists versions along
with names. In openSUSE, this is somewhat simple to discover, as zypper includes
everything in one man page rather than having various names to learn along wit
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
>>
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 04:23:06PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > mc was bad example. Currently booted is Jessie. Installed kernels are
> > 3.16 and
> > 4.8. What command shows me the newest available linux-image version
> > a
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 option
Greg Wooledge composed on 2018-01-03 16:26 (UTC-0500):
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
>> mc was bad example. Currently booted is Jessie. Installed kernels are 3.16
>> and
>> 4.8. What command shows me the newest available linux-image version available
>> anywher
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> mc was bad example. Currently booted is Jessie. Installed kernels are 3.16
> and
> 4.8. What command shows me the newest available linux-image version available
> anywhere that's been configured in sources.list?
For starters, I stro
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 04:15:51PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> mc was bad example. Currently booted is Jessie. Installed kernels are 3.16
> and
> 4.8. What command shows me the newest available linux-image version available
> anywhere that's been configured in sources.list?
Assuming you are on
bw composed on 2018-01-03 15:50 (UTC-0500):
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote:
>> I've had no luck finding a way to search in Debian that lists versions along
>> with names. In openSUSE, this is somewhat simple to discover, as zypper
>> includes
>> everything in one man page rather than ha
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