>>>>> "TOC" == Tiarnan O Corrain <ocorrain at esatclear.ie> writes:
TOC> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:42:14AM +0000, John O Sullivan wrote:
TOC> _sometimes_ its better to use apt-cache search --names-only foo
TOC> Does that search beyond /var/cache/apt/archives...?
It searches every package available from the sources listed in
/etc/apt/sources.list. It doesn't seach /var/cache/apt/archives at
all, as far as I am aware.
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