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| From | Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> |
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| Subject | Re: Understanding package dependencies |
| Date | Sun, 08 Oct 2023 14:40:01 +0200 |
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On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 10:47:58AM +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 07/10/2023 20:45: > > unicorn:~$ apt list '?provides(~nlsb-base)' > > Listing... Error! > > E: input:0-21: error: Unrecognized pattern '?provides' > > ?provides(~nlsb-base) > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > How about > > apt list '?reverse-depends(?name(lsb-base))' Reverse-depends isn't the same as Provides, though. unicorn:~$ aptitude search '~Pmail-transport-agent' p courier-mta - Courier mail server - ESMTP daemon p courier-mta:i386 - Courier mail server - ESMTP daemon p dma - lightweight mail transport agent p dma:i386 - lightweight mail transport agent [...] unicorn:~$ apt list '?reverse-depends(~nmail-transport-agent)' Listing... Done unicorn:~$ The only way I know of, to get that list from apt, is by parsing it out of the output of "apt-cache showpkg". unicorn:~$ apt-cache showpkg mail-transport-agent | sed -n '/^Reverse Provides/,$p' Reverse Provides: mta-local 1.0 (= ) exim4-daemon-light 4.96-15+deb12u2 (= ) exim4-daemon-heavy 4.96-15+deb12u2 (= ) dma:i386 0.13-1+b1 (= ) ssmtp 2.64-11 (= ) [...] Which is... better than nothing, admittedly, but it still mystifies me why this *one* feature is excluded from apt-patterns, when so many others are included.
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Understanding package dependencies Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2023-10-07 14:10 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-10-07 15:10 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-07 15:30 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2023-10-07 19:50 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-07 20:20 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-10-07 20:30 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-07 20:50 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2023-10-08 10:50 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-08 14:40 +0200
Re: Understanding package dependencies Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-09 14:20 +0200
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