Re: Understanding aptitude search patterns

On 10/04/2011 05:45 PM, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis > wrote: >> I still have much to learn about aptitude, but in case anyone is >> interested, I made some sense from the source code, which seem to be >> ingenious at times: >> >> There are indeed

Re: Understanding aptitude search patterns

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > I still have much to learn about aptitude, but in case anyone is > interested, I made some sense from the source code, which seem to be > ingenious at times: > > There are indeed two modes, but not what I thought. There is a "match > a

Re: Understanding aptitude search patterns

I still have much to learn about aptitude, but in case anyone is interested, I made some sense from the source code, which seem to be ingenious at times: There are indeed two modes, but not what I thought. There is a "match all versions" mode, which seems to be used by ?all-versions() and a "match

Re: Understanding aptitude search patterns

I do not understand the source code. Would it be correct to assume that aptitude has two searching modes: package searching mode and version searching mode, and that the latter is activated by ?any-version()? -- Best regards, Panayiotis Karabassis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Understanding aptitude search patterns

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