IL Ka wrote: > > > > > > What is the meaning of the "stable,now" string? > > Here are two answers from the Debian developer > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/408944/understanding-apt-list-output > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/403177/what-is-the-format-of-the-apt-search-output-on-debian-ubuntu Thank you for the links. It is strange however that this has to be documented somewhere in stackexchange, not in any official documentation. > > > Btw, "apt" output is not stable nor well documented. It is recommended to > use "apt-get" for the scripting purposes or, in your case, "dpkg --list" or > "dpkg-query". Oh no, my case is the purely interactive use of "apt". I have noticed that this suffix can be used interactively: # apt install yamllint/foobar Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Release 'foobar' for 'yamllint' was not found # apt install yamllint/buster Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Selected version '1.15.0-1' (Debian:10.9/stable [all]) for 'yamllint' ... I just don't quite understand how this can be put to good use. But at least I know now what the "unknown" suffix means: When you see unknown, that means the repository doesn’t have a "Suite" entry in its Release file. It's also confusing that the suffix shows "stable" while in fact I'm tracking "buster" and have no intention to track "stable". Indeed "apt-cache policy yamllint" shows "500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages", that is "buster", not "stable" as in "apt list" output. -- Victor Sudakov VAS4-RIPE http://vas.tomsk.ru/ 2:5005/49@fidonet
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