Bug#488463: marked as done (apt-cache: regex compilation error)
Your message dated Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:06:13 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#488463: apt-cache: regex compilation error
has caused the Debian Bug report #488463,
regarding apt-cache: regex compilation error
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.12
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/apt-cache
Hi,
I got the following error when trying to search for all the debug
packages:
$ apt-cache search \*-dbg
E: Regex compilation error
--Joe
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:07:07PM +0000, Joseph Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net> was heard to say:
> > (Your query can be made to work by using \\*-dbg or "\*-dbg", but it
> > won't give you any results, as there are no packages with names ending
> > "*-dbg")
>
> Yeah, what I ended up doing is:
>
> apt-cache search -- -dbg
>
> Silly me. Feel free to close this.
Will do.
Daniel
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