Re: [PLUG] apt-get and old sources

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:35:12PM +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> So here's what's odd:

Hmm, that *is* odd.

> I guess I kind of got what I want, but I'd love some help in
> understanding what happened. I thought dpkg -l should be a subset of
> apt-cache seach, for example.

I'm surprised too.

I believe you're basically right (assuming I'm getting your intended
meaning) about 'dpkg -l' vs. 'apt-cache search'.  But apparently apt
doesn't search the version strings.  Strange.  grep-available should've
picked up on those.

Perhaps try 'grep-available -i -FVersion ximian' would show you
something?  If it works, then try adding the rest of the pipe sequence
from the grep-available command from my other message, then following
the rest of the steps.  (BTW, I just noticed from looking at the man
page that the 'grep ^Package' is unnecessary -- grep-available (and,
more generally, grep-dctrl) has a '-s' or '--show-fields' option.)

Anyway, this is what I get on my sid machine with an example query:
bj@neo:~$ grep-available -i -FVersion snapshot -sPackage
Package: zephyr-clients
Package: zephyr-server-krb
Package: zephyr-server
Package: libzephyr3
Package: postfix
Package: libzephyr3-krb
Package: postfix-tls
Package: libzephyr-dev

Hopefully this will work better.

Wait, have you done an 'apt-get update' after removing the Ximian lines
from your sources.list?  In that case, the package lists for the Ximian
stuff wouldn't be in /var/lib/apt/lists with all the others, which is
where grep-available looks (I think).  Try doing something like this
instead:  'grep-dctrl -i ximian -sPackage /var/lib/dpkg/available' and
see if you get different results.  (That file holds information on all
the packages that dpkg knows about, as opposed to what's currently
available to be installed.)

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