On 07/19/2018 10:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, David Wright wrote:
While there are commands like aptitude search and aptitude why
available for such purposes, these are really designed for routine
maintenance. For your purposes, I think you need to develop a more
intimate relationship with the files in /var/lib/apt/lists/,
or look at the utilities that the package dctrl-tools provides ;-)
For my fellow newbies who come across this thread, the associated man
pages are:
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/grep-dctrl.1.en.html
grep-dctrl, grep-status, grep-available, grep-aptavail, grep-debtags
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/sort-dctrl.1.en.html
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/tbl-dctrl.1.en.html
generate tabular representations of data in dctrl format
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/dctrl-tools/sync-available.8.en.html
sync dpkg's available database with apt's database
GREP-DCTRL(1) says in part, "Use your imagination! The building blocks
are there ..."
I believe it ;/ I suspect piping its output to tbl-dctrl will be
interesting to say the least.
Thanks.
