On Tuesday 20 July 2010 03:56:08 Paul Cartwright wrote: > so if I wanted the LIST of packages that I have installed using backports, > it would be like this? > > $ aptitude search '~S ~i ~Alenny-backports' > i libmysqlclient-dev - MySQL database development files > i A libmysqlclient16 - MySQL database client library > i libv4l-0 - Collection of video4linux support > librarie > i A mysql-common - MySQL database common files, > e.g. /etc/mys
Yes. Note that a "simple" query like that (e.g. (aptitude search '~S ~i ~Aunstable')) doesn't necessarily work with a mixed testing/unstable (or more complex) system, since package versions can be available from multiple archives. The backports project has a naming policy in place so their package versions are never the same as an official package version, so this simple query works as is. I tend to use queries like this on my mixed system to determine how far I've drifted from stable. Right now, on my laptop, 686/1312 packages are from stable, 100/1312 are from backports, and 526/1312 are from testing. Once I'm running "mostly" testing, I'll probably just read the current draft of the release notes and do an upgrade at that time. It looks like that might be soon, too. ghc6 is having fits compiling my code that uses the HDBC-PostgreSQL package and I think it might be do to some change in symbol generation or mangling between gcc-4.3.2 (stable, currently installed) and gcc-4.4.4 (testing, and what ghc6 and libghc6-* packages are compiled with). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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