Hi, [mail reordered and cut: full-quote top-posting is frowned upon on mailinglists usually] On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 09:22:54PM +1200, Ivan Kurnosov wrote: > On 7 May 2015 at 21:18, David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> wrote: > > Btw: What are you trying to pull of? Policy output isn't really easy to > > parse, so I wonder what you are trying to get from it. > > at the moment all I need is to get if a package with the given name is in > the index. Something like: apt-cache pkgnames apt | grep -q '^apt$' Might work just as well for this usecase and might even be a bit faster. Not ideal from an interface point of view either, but I guess if you want a nicer interface you are probably better of with python-apt or your own c++ libapt user anyway. [The relatively new 'apt list' will be one day useable for this, but it isn't really finished just yet and 'apt' shouldn't be used in scripts] Best regards David Kalnischkies
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