Re: regexp in apt-cache search

["Adam D. Barratt" <debian-deity@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 08:19 -0500, digitalfredy wrote:
> I have a question about the regular expressions in apt-cache search command:
> because i get mysql-server-5.0 using:
> 
> user@host:$ apt-cache search --names-only '^mysql-server$'
> mysql-server - mysql database server (meta package depending on the
> latest version)
> mysql-server-5.0 - mysql database server binaries

mysql-server-5.0 provides a virtual package called mysql-server which is
why it appears in the search results.

Regards,

Adam