[ale] debain package listing by origin

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On 02/28/2010 04:29 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Is there any way to list debian dpks from a certain origin (security,
> backports, main, non-free, etc) via the cmdline?  ... in a parse'able
> format?

Yes, one of the search terms aptitude supports is archive.

For example,

aptitude search ~Asecurity

produces output like

i   acpid                           - Utilities for using ACPI power
management
p   akregator                       - RSS feed aggregator for KDE

p   amarok                          - versatile and easy to use audio
player for
p   amarok-engines                  - output engines for the Amarok
audio player
p   amarok-xine                     - xine engine for the Amarok audio
player -
p   amule                           - client for the eD2k and Kad
networks, like
p   amule-common                    - common files for the rest of aMule
package
p   amule-daemon                    - non-graphic version of aMule, a
client for
p   amule-utils                     - utilities for aMule (command-line
version)
p   amule-utils-gui                 - graphic utilities for aMule

http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html#tableSearchTermQuickGuide

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts