Re: Bug#618776: searching for hold will match packages with that name
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 08:16:08PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 22 mar 11, 00:37:35, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:23:42PM +0000, Owen Dunn wrote:
> > > Package: release-notes
> > >
> > > Chapter 4 of the squeeze release notes asks one to search for holds
> > > by typing:
> > >
> > > dpkg --get-selections | grep hold
> > >
> > > This will erroneously match any packages whose names contain the
> > > string `hold'
> >
> > dpkg --get-selections | grep 'hold$'
> >
> > I guess this should fix it although it complicates things.
> >
> > It is a question of addressing very corner case or keep it simple.
>
> $ apt-cache search -n hold
> holdingnuts-server - poker server
> holdingnuts - poker client
>
> (I have lenny, squeeze, wheezy and sid in sources.list)
>
> but those two packages are not present in lenny. Maybe postpone this
> issue for wheezey?
+1
I vote for this.
Osamu
PS: Next release wheezy from "Wheezy the Penguin" is without "e".
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