Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <[🔎] AANLkTimeCTabS39d+GgYspRyvZUUrbFZ7Qzk-gmJesAv@mail.gmail.com>, Tom H
> wrote:
>>On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> How can I find out which packages on my system come from a certain
>>> suite, say experimental in this case?  The naïve approach
>>> $ aptitude search "~i ~Aexperimental"
>>> does not work.
>>
>>aptitude search "?narrow(?archive(experimental),?installed)"
>
> If you like the short type better, you could use
> (aptitude search '~S ~i ~Aexperimental').

Less wordy, definitely, except that in a month or two or three, you'll
have to remember that "?narrow" == "~S" and you might not. :)