List of packages from certain repo

[Johan Ramm-Ericson]

On Tue, December 19, 2006 06:46, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof <lists at vandenieuwenhof.nl> writes:
>
>> It's a bit strange that programs like apt aptitude and synaptic can't
>> complete a simple task like this.
>
> I'm not sure it's that simple, because the information (AFAIK) is just
> not there.  Once a package is installed, the system doesn't keep track
> of where the package came from.

Hhhmm - interesting problem - I think it could be done because :

apt-cache show <pkgname> | grep -i section

/johan