How to tell which repositories provide which packages?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>>Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:  
>>>Little Girl wrote:    
  
>>You're absolutely right.  
>
>I didn't verify if it really does show all packages ;). But much
>likely it does. If it shouldn't, then the solution I like the best
>would be faulty, too.

In which case, we'd go back to the drawing board and come up with
some new ways of doing it.

>It's a good collection for somebody who want's to use it as a
>starting point to write a good script.

If I can finish fixing the ones that need attention, I'll put the
collection up on my blog.

>You might want to point out the pitfall of "grep ii" for a "dpkg
>-l".

Even better would be to get rid of them. I've managed to replace one
of them, but still have work to do on the others.

>Btw. I don't know if dpkg has kind of a quite option, that might
>make redirecting stderr unnecessary.

No idea. I'll leave that to you. My Bash code is often horribly bulky
and even a bit awkward, but usually eventually manages to get the job
done despite that. I do admire the streamlined elegance of others'
code, though.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.