On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:17:47 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:22:38 +0200, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote:
apt-cache --names-only search '^a' except from packages name started
with 'a' (intented) will also give packages that they have a source
file whos name starts with 'a'. is that an error?
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Hum... from man "apt-cache" page:
search regex [ regex ... ]
search performs a full text search on all available package lists for
the POSIX regex pattern given, see regex(7). *It searches the package
names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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(bolded text is mine)
So, no, I think you are getting the documented behaviour ;-)
No, wait, the above argument has a big hole. Man page continues (I did
not carefully read, my bad...):
***
If --full is given then output identical to show is produced for each
matched package, and if --names-only is given then the long description
is not searched, only the package name is.
***
So indeed, only package name should be queried in the regex which does
not seem to be the case. I also get false positives, for example:
sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache --names-only search "^a" | grep sleepd
sleepd - puts an inactive or low battery laptop to sleep
But here, even the source package is named "sleepd", why the regex is
catching this? A bug? :-?