Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-13 Thread Dom
On 13/03/11 13:58, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:06:58 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) The manual page should be then updated accordingly to reflect the current status of the "--names-only" argument :-) Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618017 Thank you, I sho

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:06:58 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) > The manual page should be then updated accordingly to reflect the > current status of the "--names-only" argument :-) Done: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618017 Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:09:29 +, Dom wrote: > On 12/03/11 19:25, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> So indeed, only package name should be queried in the regex which does >> not seem to be the case. I also get false positives, for example: >> >> sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache --names-only search "^a" | grep

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-12 Thread Dom
On 12/03/11 19:25, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:17:47 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:22:38 +0200, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: apt-cache --names-only search '^a' except from packages name started with 'a' (intented) will also give packages that they have a source f

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:17:47 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:22:38 +0200, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > >> apt-cache --names-only search '^a' except from packages name started >> with 'a' (intented) will also give packages that they have a source >> file whos name starts with

Re: apt-cache regex question

2011-03-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:22:38 +0200, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: > apt-cache --names-only search '^a' except from packages name started > with 'a' (intented) will also give packages that they have a source > file whos name starts with 'a'. is that an error? (...) Hum... from man "apt-cache" p

apt-cache regex question

2011-03-12 Thread Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος
Hi apt-cache --names-only search '^a' except from packages name started with 'a' (intented) will also give packages that they have a source file whos name starts with 'a'. is that an error? eg: $apt-cache --names-only search '^a' ... xul-ext-adblock-plus ... $ apt-cache show xul-ex