Re: apt-get source problem

[Patrick Hsieh <pahud@pahud.net>]

This is cool!
Back to apt-cache, can I specify a release name and query the version
number of a specific package?

like apt-cache -t stable show php4

But seems apt-cache does not provide -t.




> Thus spake Nathan E Norman (nnorman@micromuse.com):
> 
> > $ apt-get source php4/testing 
> > 
> > should work, but doesn't.  It says "unable to find a source package
> > for php4/testing" ...
> > 
> > I'm looking at the pool directory and the source for 4.0.100 (the
> > version in testing) is there ... so you could always download it
> > manually and use dpkg-source to unpack.  However, it seems like
> > apt-get should be able to do it ...
> > 
> > After reading the man page a few times, I tried
> > 
> > $ apt-get source php4=3:4.0.100-1
> > 
> > and it works!!  Use "apt-cache show <pkgname>" and look for the
> > "Version:" tag to see what you need to put after the = char (make sure
> > you're looking at the correct entry; "apt-cache show" shows info for
> > all the releases it knows about.  In the case of php4 with my
> > sources.list this means I have 4 entries (sid, woody, potato,
> > security).
> > 
> > This is cool!  I learned something today :)
> 
> I think that the -t flag works for getting source as well.  Have a look
> at the man page. 
> 
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