<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jorey Bump</b> <<a href="mailto:list@joreybump.com">list@joreybump.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>The <a href="http://linuxpackages.net">linuxpackages.net</a> repository isn't really meant to be complete<br>distribution replacement. I'd think twice about adding it as a SOURCE in<br>slaptgetrc. And then I wouldn't do it. :)
</blockquote><div><br>point taken. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> This is a pain in the ass since I have to dig through a lot of stuff to
<br>> find what I need. is this a bug?<br><br>No, it's just showing you all of the matching packages in all of the<br>repositories. This way, you have the option of installing a specific<br>version of a package (even in the standard distribution, some packages
<br>are mistakenly identified as updates, especially if there are testing<br>versions in extra). To make things a bit easier, do this:<br><br> slapt-get --search alsa | sort</blockquote><div><br>this helps, sort makes the output much clearer. thanx jorey.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The downside to this approach is that it's not as easy to identify the<br>SOURCE of a package, which is how they are normally grouped.
<br><br>If you find the output too verbose, use grep:<br><br> slapt-get --search alsa | sort | grep alsa</blockquote><div><br>I have used grep before in some cases, I just wanted to know why I get some<br>packages listed twice. I didn't know slapt-get lists the package multiple
<br>times if it exists on several repositories. <br>thnx for the tips.<br></div><br></div><br>