Re: Sticking with Lenny

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 08 feb 11, 20:14:41, Tom H wrote:
>> 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.
>
> But how do you search for it?

Just prepend or append  "-F '%p %t'" (to get program name and archive)
to the search above.