[Aptitude-devel] Bug#665824: Bug#665824: possibility for the user to mark installed packages with some kind of text

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 28 March 2012 06:18, William <r.3 at libertysurf.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> thanks for your answer.
>
> $ : non root prompt
> # : root prompt
>
>
> - Problem using add-user-tag :
> the following command does not complain (in non root prompt). I have no
> special multi-arch system (AFAIK) :
> $ aptitude add-user-tag test emacs
> then the following command does not succeed (gives nothing) :
> $ aptitude search '?user-tag(test)'
> To make it work, I need to be root. Which is ok, but I should have received
> a warning or an error, right?

Ah.  Yes, you should get an error.  Will fix this.

>
> - get a command to search packages and see their tags :
> $ aptitude search em
> i      emacs           test,foo
> i      emfoo           bar
> i      barem           other-tag
>

Yes, we could use a %-escape for this also.