Re: Listing packages
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:37:33AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de> was heard to say:
> In the manual the description of the '%t' says
> "The archive in which the package is found."
>
> And aptitude seems to list the archive with the lowest priority.
> So my advice about the aptitude command is indeed misleading since
> aptitude does not tell from which archive the installed version of the
> package was taken.
> Thanks for correcting me.
> Therefore the script of David Clymer is the only working solution.
You should be able to get the same result with
aptitude search -F "%p %t" "~S~i~Aexperimental"
. In fact, in that case you don't need to print the archive, since
all and only the installed experimental packages will be displayed.
Daniel
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