[Gllug] useful script (maybe) for Debian users

[Stig Brautaset]

On Sep 23 2002, Bruce was overheard saying:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:16:04PM +0100, Stig wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > My Debian system is mostly Woody, but some packages are from Sid.  I
> > couldn't find anywhere a tool that could tell me which packages on my
> > system are from Woody and which are from Sid, so I ended up writing one.
> > The script is available from my web page if anybody's interested.
> 
> Try aptitude.  In addition to being a better front-end to the package
> system than dselect, it can be used to do complex searches.   It can do
> this within the curses UI or from cli parameters, in which case it
> simply returns a list rather than entering interactive mode.
> 
> 	aptidude search ~Atesting~i
> 
> would give you all installed packages from the testing archive.

That's very useful, thank you.

Stig
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