Re: Sticking with Lenny

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 08 feb 11, 14:28:34, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> In <[🔎] 20110208174911.GT6759@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>> >
>> >you can run
>> >
>> >    aptitude search ~S~i~Astable
>> >
>> >to get the list of packages from stable/squeeze.
>>
>> Depends.  The argument of ~A ("stable" in this case) is used as a regular
>> expression.  That regular expression also matches packages from the "unstable"
>> archive.  (Use "^stable$" instead for an exact match.)
>
> Good catch. Wish it was possible to search by codename, would make
> things clearer.

You can use "-F '...%t...'" to display the archive by codename.