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Bug#752702: apt: please add a way to to retrieve the location of Packages/Sources files in /var/lib/apt/lists/



Hi,

Quoting David Kalnischkies (2015-06-24 23:18:12)
> So, long story short, the solution I would like to propose is:
> 
> $ apt-get files "Codename: sid" "Trusted: yes" "Created-By: Packages"
> […]

so the arguments to "apt-get files" are fields and values and the command will
output all paragraphs where all those fields match?

Can one omit these field:value pairs to get everything? This would allow doing
a custom selection with the more powerful grep-dctrl tool for example.

> I would consider this bug done if this code reaches a release (sofar it is
> sitting in the debian/experimental branch in git as this is part of the
> acquire system rework in general and one giant API break…), but would be very
> happy if you and/or anyone else could comment on the usefulness (or not) of
> it in the mean time. There are some things still missing and I am not too
> sure if I will stick to the very generic "files" command or invent something
> else, but that is at least the general direction… Tech-preview status I would
> say.

works for me, thanks!

cheers, josch

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