[ale] debain package listing by origin

Jim Popovitch jimpop at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 17:27:57 EST 2010


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 17:10, Don Lachlan
<ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This does work however:
>>  dpkg --list | grep ~bpo
>
> I think you want,
>
> $ aptitude search '?installed ?origin(backports)'

I appreciate you following up on this, however aptitude is just too
complex to bother with when dpkg+grep can do the task (IMHO). ;-)

Besides, aptitude had extra pkg dependencies... and I deplore
installing more than I need. ;-)

-Jim P.



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