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Re: Listing packages



On 10/24/07, David Clymer <david@zettazebra.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:

> > aptitude can do that:
> >
> > aptitude -F '%p %t' search '~i'

That produces (imho) misleading output. It is telling me that I have
many more packages that come from unstable then I believe I should
have on a testing system. I have set pinning to prefer testing over
stable, but I've also installed a few packages from unstable - mostly
those that relate to X and nvidia stuff that isn't available in
testing (specifically, nvidia-kernel-source && nvidia-glx).

Yet, for instance, it says 'tar' comes from unstable.

apt-cache policy says:

tar:
  Installed: 1.18-2
  Candidate: 1.18-2
  Version table:
     1.19-1 0
        600 http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
 *** 1.18-2 0
        990 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

So, what is that aptitude command telling me?



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