Re: Local webserver for testing, needed
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:35:09 -0600
Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:43:30PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:22:21 -0600
> > Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> wrote:
> > > [1] Is there a switch I'm not aware of that causes a search for,
> > > say, php to return just the actual php packages (i.e., php3 and
> > > php4) instead of all the hundreds of phpgroupware-* and other
> > > packages that use php?
> >
> > From 'man apt-cache'
> >
> > --names-only, -n
> > Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions.
> > Configuration Item: APT::Cache::NamesOnly.
>
> The "phpgroupware-*" names still match "php". Granted, that (or the
> grep that I normally use instead) takes it down from 314 matches to
> 144, but that's still a lot more than just the actual php packages.
It probably treats 'php' as 'php*'. If you want regex you have to use
one, just like in the other post. I know this might be against pure
geek way, but sometimes it is nice to just
'apt-cache search some_partial_string' and get meaningful results.
Regards,
Andrei
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