On Fri, 24 May 2013, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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.
Someone else suggested that, too. Of course, it's not a real "general" search--I have to know a specific package name, but it will list that package if it's in backports. I'll keep searching until I find something that fits my requirements (can't believe there's not one somewhere) even if I have to pull out the old C manuals and write the damned thing myself. ;-) Thanks for the response. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130524194029.43601...@debian7.boseck208.net
