Re: How to find all packages installed from backports?

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Hello Johannes.
> 
> Johannes Wiedersich, 04.04.2007 17:40:
>> Liam O'Toole wrote:
>>> Don't they all have a -bpo suffix on the version number? Try this:
>>>
>>>     dpkg -l | grep bpo
>> Unfortunately, some version numbers don't fit into the output format of
>> dpkg -l and are truncated; notably firefox. So this might work, if I
>> would remember of how to reformat the output of dpkg -l in order to show
>> the full version number.
> 
> Either set COLUMNS before or pipe the output of dpkg to cat.

I don't know how I should set COLUMNS and your second option works on
etch, but not on sarge.

Thanks,
Johannes