Re: aptitude package filtering

[Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net>]

On Sunday 14 March 2010 17:54:25 Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 05:23:11PM -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...
>
> I think you'd be better off with something like
>
>  $ apt-show-versions | gerp testing

  I love this list -- I've been mucking about with Debian for
years, and had never run across apt-show-versions.

  I even discovered that there's an update for my lenny-backports
version of OpenOffice.

  On my system, packages show up with the distro name, not the 
distro status (i.e. "squeeze" and "lenny", not "testing" or "stable"),
but aside from that it works as described.

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Andrew Reid / reidac@bellatlantic.net