On Ma, 16 oct 12, 08:01:59, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> > wrote: > > > > According to my reading of the manual: > > > > aptitude search '~smain' > > and > > aptitude search '~smain|~scontrib|~snon-free' > > > > should give you the answers you seek, however, I seem to get 0 for the > > first and only 626 for the second, so my search-fu is failing me today. > > Because "~s" ("?section()") doesn't correspond to main/contrib/non-free.
In theory true, but in practice: $ apt-cache show nvidia-glx | grep ^Section Section: non-free/x11 This means a search for contrib or non-free with ~s will succeed, but not for for main, since packages in main don't advertise the archive component in the Section field. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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