Re: packages as per sources

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:10:02AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> >
> > > May be I was not clear. I wanted to packages installed say from nerim
> > > source. How to get it?
>
> I would like clarify that I would like to get a list of packages
> installed from particular source. This I felt as necessary when we do
> dpkg --get-selections and store the result to install again or install
> in other machine with new sources list.

Not sure about this one.

> I also wanted to get list of packages available from a source. As I
> use apt, I wanted to use apt-cache as aptitude could not find as
> suggested by Mr.Florian Ernst

As already suggested, if the source is already in you 
/etc/apt/sources.list and you have done apt-get update then there will 
be a packages file in /var/lib/apt/lists/ for each source.

You can then grep/awk the file to get a list of package names available 
e.g. for marillat amd64 source spello.sscnet.ucla.edu_marillat_dists_sid_

cd /var/lib/apt/lists
 cat spello.sscnet.ucla.edu_marillat_dists_sid_*| grep Package |awk -F 
: {'print$2'} > marillat.txt

Will give a text file will all the package names in it.  Do the same for 
all your sources.  You probably write a simple bash script to compare 
the output of dpkg -l | grep ii against these files to fins where the 
package originates from.

Not very elegant but may do what you want

HTH

Wackojacko