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Re: Identifying the origin of packages



On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:44:57PM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote:
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> I want to remove
> 
> deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib
> non-free restricted
> 
> from my sources.list, however I want to be sure that source isn't
> currently providing any packages on my system.  Is there a command that
> can list all the packages from each mirror?
> 
> I was thinking along the lines of
> 
> dpkg -l | grep unofficial
> 
> but -l only gives a summary of information.
> 
You can install apt-show-versions and then run:

apt-show-versions -i  (honestly, I can't remember if this step is required
or not)
apt-show-versions | grep unstable

-Rob


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