In Aptitude, how can I tell where a package is coming from? I've set up my apt sources.list and preferences files for pinning, but I just want to make sure I'm not unknowingly upgrading to packages from backports or unstable.
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1http://superuser.com/questions/106794/how-to-tell-from-what-ubuntu-or-debian-repository-a-package-comes – quanta Aug 01 '11 at 02:33
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apt-cache policy $packagename will tell you what you want to know. For example:
$ apt-cache policy gnucash
gnucash:
Installed: 1:2.4.2-1ubuntu1
Candidate: 1:2.4.2-1ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1:2.4.2-1ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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