On Vi, 24 mai 13, 09:56:44, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Nothing in particular. Just "in general." For example say, in the > future, a particular version of an app from Stable repo is giving me > trouble or I need some feature(s) that's only in a newer version, and > I want to search ONLY backports to see if the newer version is there > before I go elsewhere. That's all I was thinking. ... > I have very limited experience with aptitude. Have always used > apt-get. So, I guess, I've got some studying to do.
For that I'd use 'apt-cache policy <package>', it's faster and I wouldn't know the search pattern by heart. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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