Re: Search Wheezy-backports?
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 24 mai 13, 09:56:44, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> >
> > Nothing in particular. Just "in general." For example say, in the
> > future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me
> > trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a newer version,
> > and I want to search ONLY backports to see if the newer version is
> > there before I go elsewhere. That's all I was thinking.
> ...
> > I have very limited experience with aptitude. Have always used
> > apt-get. So, I guess, I've got some studying to do.
>
> For that I'd use 'apt-cache policy <package>', it's faster and I
> wouldn't know the search pattern by heart.
Someone else suggested that, too. Of course, it's not a real
"general" search--I have to know a specific package name, but it will
list that package if it's in backports.
I'll keep searching until I find something that fits my requirements
(can't believe there's not one somewhere) even if I have to pull out the
old C manuals and write the damned thing myself. ;-)
Thanks for the response.
B
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