On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > > > What I ment here was that I can do > > 'apt-cache policy samba' > > but I can't do: > > 'aptitude policy samba' > > You can't go apt-get policy samba; either. There are some things for > which tools besides aptitude are the right thing to use, and showing > the policy is one of them. [I don't know if aptitude will ever add a > feature to show this itself, but it doesn't really need to.] > I use 'apt-cache policy samba' a lot since it will tell me which version I have and which version In testing or unstable is available (using pinging and preferences )
aptitude show samba doesn't show that. The reason I'm asking this is because it seems to me as 'apt-cache policy ' belongs to apt-get group, and since we are recommending aptitude I thought there would be aptitude version of apt-cache policy. I guess not. Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
