Hi again, Axel Beckert wrote: > The main reason is that ~A does (as most of aptitude's patterns) > substring matching, […] > * aptitude's ~A pattern matches substrings of the Archive value in the > Release file.
Sven is of course right, and it's regular expression matching and not (only) substring matching. See https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s01.html Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE