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searching backports with apt-cache

I'm running debian etch and I have added backports to my /etc/apt/sources.list and modified /etc/apt/preferences to do pinning and preformed apt-get update afterwards.

My question is, how do I search available packages from backports via apt-cache?

Running "apt-cache search bash-doc" returns only one result and when I perform "apt-cache policy bash-doc"
I see only the stable source, even though I know that there is a newer
version available in backports.

Code:

bash-doc:

  Installed: 3.1dfsg-8

  Candidate: 3.1dfsg-8

  Version table:

 *** 3.1dfsg-8 0

        900 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file:

Code:

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main



deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main



deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free 

deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free



deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free



deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main contrib non-free

This is my /etc/apt/preferences file:

Code:

Package: *

Pin: release o=Debian,a=stable

Pin-Priority: 900



Package: *

Pin: release a=etch-backports

Pin-Priority: 200



Package: *

Pin: release o=Debian

Pin-Priority: -10

Do you guys know what could be the problem?
Thanks in advance.

I would be interested in this

What makes you think etch-backports has bash-doc in it?

http://packages.debian.org/search?ke...etch-backports

It'll work as you have it, if you pick a package that's in etch-backports too.

Code:

alucard@karrde:~$ apt-cache policy lighttpd

lighttpd:

  Installed: 1.4.19-5

  Candidate: 1.4.19-5

  Version table:

 *** 1.4.19-5 0

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

    1.4.19-5~bpo40+1 0

        625 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main Packages

    1.4.13-4etch11 0

        650 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu etch/main Packages

        650 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages

You're right, I got confused.
I did search bash-doc and got the page you did, but then I click on the "Some results have not been displayed..." and saw newer version but somehow failed to notice they were related to lenny or sid.

Thanks :)