On Sb, 08 ian 11, 14:12:44, Sthu Deus wrote: > Andrei wrote: > > > Add the repository to your sources.list, update and then use aptitude > > to search for packages with the respective origin [~O or > > ?origin(repository)], but it's simpler to just open the repository in > > I've got plenty of packages trying w/: > > /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/aptitude search ~O backports > > or > > /usr/bin/aptitude search ~O bpo > > I do not believe I understood You correctly though. Yes you did, but there's one small detail missing:
$ apt-cache policy [snip] 1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-backports,l=Debian Backports,c=main origin www.backports.org [snip] The correct origin is "Debian Backports" according to o=... (BTW, this reminds me I forgot to update this machine to the new location, but the origin is the same ;)] > > a browser and look in the pool directory ;) > > The dir. contains other repos packages mixed - making it impossible to > to discern to which backports version it relates to. - As I understand. > > Also, I guess You can try it Yourself, here is the link: > > http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ Right... didn't think of that. Ok, look at the file: http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz As you can see the file is empty, which means there are no packages ;) (replace binary-amd64 with the arch you need) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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