[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)



On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 12:53:40PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast).
> > 
> >  I use:
> > 
> > perl -n00e '/xml/i && print;' /var/state/apt/lists/*Packages | less
> > 
> >  (to search for XML related packaged e.g.)
> 
> joey@gumdrop:~>apt-cache search xml
> libroxen-swarm - Swarning stars module for the Roxen Challenger web server
> cdindex-client - cdindex is intended to be the opensource replacement of

 When apt came I drop my super-clever perl scripts to report what were new
to download... It's happening again...  =)


Reply to: