Re: aptitude package filtering

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 17:23:11 -0400, 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.

If I understand you correctly then I think the "narrowing" search
pattern/operator is what you want:

aptitude search '~S ~i ~Atesting'

file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/ch02s04s05.html#searchNarrow

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          Florian   |