Re: aptitude package filtering

[Yavuz Yetim <yyetim@gmail.com>]

I tested both of apt-show-versions and aptitude limit approach. There
are differences. apt-show-versions shows which packages are installed
from what archive. The list aptitude shows is, the packages which are
installed and they exists in the given archive. apt-show-versions is
more like what I wanted. 

for example if package X is installed from stable and the same version
is available in testing, apt-show-versions doesn't show it but aptitude
shows. 

Thanks,
Yavuz

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 22:35 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Regards,            |
>           Florian   |
> 
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