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Bug#618776: marked as done (searching for hold will match packages with that name)

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regarding searching for hold will match packages with that name
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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' 

(S)

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Hi,

On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:58:20PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 15:08:47 -0400, David Prévot wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> > That would mean now then. Please find attached a straightforward patch
> > for this issue. Thanks in advance for your reviews, rewrites, remarks or
> > simple acknowledgments.
> > 
> I wouldn't bother, tbh.  It still complicates things, and still has
> dubious practical benefit.

I took the liberty to apply the patch ( "dpkg --get-selections | grep 'hold$'"
).  I feel grepping for 'hold$' yiels what one is looking for, grepping for
hold does not.

Closing this bug.  Feel free to undo the patch and/or reopen this bug.

Bye,

Joost

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