[ale] debain package listing by origin

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Fri Mar 5 20:05:35 EST 2010


On 03/05/2010 05:10 PM, Don Lachlan wrote:
> The syntax seems wonky at first but it's incredibly powerful. Mostly, it's,
> 
> $ aptitude search '?filter ?otherfilter(regex) ?nextfilter'

Just an FYI: For some reason this syntax doesn't work in earlier
versions of Ubuntu, but the short form of it does.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude/+bug/415386

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All the best,
Brian Pitts


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