On Ma, 16 oct 12, 08:01:59, Tom H wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > According to my reading of the manual:
> >
> > aptitude search '~smain'
> > and
> > aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free'
> >
> > should give you the answers you seek, however, I seem to get 0 for the
> > first and only 626 for the second, so my search-fu is failing me today.
>
> Because "~s" ("?section()") doesn't correspond to main/contrib/non-free.
In theory true, but in practice:
$ apt-cache show nvidia-glx | grep ^Section
Section: non-free/x11
This means a search for contrib or non-free with ~s will succeed, but
not for for main, since packages in main don't advertise the archive
component in the Section field.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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