On Ma, 30 sep 14, 12:07:16, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > On 30/09/2014 03:27, John Hasler wrote: > >https://wiki.debian.org/FtpMaster/Override > > So, if i understood correctly, apt reports the correct information, taking > care of possible overrides by FTP master. Instead dpkg reports the original > intention of the packager but might not reflect the real situation. > > Said with other words, if you want to obtain, for example, the list of > installed packages that have standard priority on you system, using dpkg for > this can bring to wrong results. You have to use apt-based tool. Is it > correct? Yes. 'aptitude search ?priority(important)' would be a way. Do mind 'Essential: yes' is not a priority ;) What are you trying to accomplish? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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