[ale] debain package listing by origin

[Don Lachlan]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
> I appreciate you following up on this, however aptitude is just too
> complex to bother with when dpkg+grep can do the task (IMHO). ;-)

In this case, sure. There are lots of cases where it can't, tho.

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

If you want to run without aptitude entirely, it's your system. I
moved from apt-get to aptitude years ago and found it very useful,
even with the unique search syntax. :)

-Don


> 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)'
>


> -Jim P.
>
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