Re: aptitude package filtering

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-14 16:23, Yavuz Yetim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to list all packages installed from testing. How can I do
> that? First limiting to ~installed and then searching ~archive(testing)
> gives me packages that are installed and available in testing and that's
> not what I want. For example, I have evolution 2.22 from stable. So,
> ~installed matches evolution 2.22, so package evolution is in the list
> and ~archive(testing) matches evolution because evolution 2.28 is in
> testing. However, I don't want to see evolution in the list because I
> want only the packages that are installed from testing (not the ones
> that are installed and available in testing). If it is not installed
> from testing, I don't want to see it. How can I do that? I hope the
> explanation was clear.

I'd do something like:
  $ apt-show-versions | grep testing | egrep "uptodate|upgradeable"

I'm an apt-get guy, though, and it might not match the aptitude 
database.

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