Why is ubuntu package search severely outdated?
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at https://packages.ubuntu.com/, users can perform searches for ubuntu packages and source packages. but the content returned by server is severely outdated, for example, searching for package linux-image-extra in trusty(which is codename for 14.04) in the website shows the newest entry:
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-43-generic
at the same time using apt search inside of a ubuntu 14.04 distribution returns more recent results, the newest of which is:
linux-image-extra-3.19.0-80-generic
Why? Is that website not maintained anymore?
EDIT: To clarify I used linux-image-extra as search term intentionally to get newest possible linux-image-extra-VERSION-generic package version.
14.04 package-management
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at https://packages.ubuntu.com/, users can perform searches for ubuntu packages and source packages. but the content returned by server is severely outdated, for example, searching for package linux-image-extra in trusty(which is codename for 14.04) in the website shows the newest entry:
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-43-generic
at the same time using apt search inside of a ubuntu 14.04 distribution returns more recent results, the newest of which is:
linux-image-extra-3.19.0-80-generic
Why? Is that website not maintained anymore?
EDIT: To clarify I used linux-image-extra as search term intentionally to get newest possible linux-image-extra-VERSION-generic package version.
14.04 package-management
asked May 24 at 9:17
Sajuuk
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It's also probably useful to know about the kernel release schedule wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support, it looks like you may have installed a point release which uses a later kernel. Hence 3.19 as the kernel version instead of 3.13 which is the original still supported kernel for 14.04.
– Arronical
May 24 at 9:45
@Arronical, so are you saying the apt search result is tailored against my current kernel version?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:58
There is nolinux-image-extrapackage, so it can't possibly show you the latest version of it. All thelinux-image-extra-***-genericare different packages, and it is showing you the latest version of each.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:19
And if you want to obtain a list of all packages whose name matches some keyword even when there are very many of them, packages.ubuntu.com is not the right tool for you.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:30
1
Well it looks likeapt searchworks pretty well, does it not?
– fkraiem
May 24 at 11:31
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at https://packages.ubuntu.com/, users can perform searches for ubuntu packages and source packages. but the content returned by server is severely outdated, for example, searching for package linux-image-extra in trusty(which is codename for 14.04) in the website shows the newest entry:
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-43-generic
at the same time using apt search inside of a ubuntu 14.04 distribution returns more recent results, the newest of which is:
linux-image-extra-3.19.0-80-generic
Why? Is that website not maintained anymore?
EDIT: To clarify I used linux-image-extra as search term intentionally to get newest possible linux-image-extra-VERSION-generic package version.
14.04 package-management
asked May 24 at 9:17
Sajuuk
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at https://packages.ubuntu.com/, users can perform searches for ubuntu packages and source packages. but the content returned by server is severely outdated, for example, searching for package linux-image-extra in trusty(which is codename for 14.04) in the website shows the newest entry:
linux-image-extra-3.16.0-43-generic
at the same time using apt search inside of a ubuntu 14.04 distribution returns more recent results, the newest of which is:
linux-image-extra-3.19.0-80-generic
Why? Is that website not maintained anymore?
EDIT: To clarify I used linux-image-extra as search term intentionally to get newest possible linux-image-extra-VERSION-generic package version.
14.04 package-management
asked May 24 at 9:17
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edited May 24 at 11:13
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It's also probably useful to know about the kernel release schedule wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support, it looks like you may have installed a point release which uses a later kernel. Hence 3.19 as the kernel version instead of 3.13 which is the original still supported kernel for 14.04.
– Arronical
May 24 at 9:45
@Arronical, so are you saying the apt search result is tailored against my current kernel version?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:58
There is nolinux-image-extrapackage, so it can't possibly show you the latest version of it. All thelinux-image-extra-***-genericare different packages, and it is showing you the latest version of each.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:19
And if you want to obtain a list of all packages whose name matches some keyword even when there are very many of them, packages.ubuntu.com is not the right tool for you.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:30
1
Well it looks likeapt searchworks pretty well, does it not?
– fkraiem
May 24 at 11:31
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show 3 more comments
It's also probably useful to know about the kernel release schedule wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support, it looks like you may have installed a point release which uses a later kernel. Hence 3.19 as the kernel version instead of 3.13 which is the original still supported kernel for 14.04.
– Arronical
May 24 at 9:45
@Arronical, so are you saying the apt search result is tailored against my current kernel version?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:58
There is nolinux-image-extrapackage, so it can't possibly show you the latest version of it. All thelinux-image-extra-***-genericare different packages, and it is showing you the latest version of each.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:19
And if you want to obtain a list of all packages whose name matches some keyword even when there are very many of them, packages.ubuntu.com is not the right tool for you.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:30
1
Well it looks likeapt searchworks pretty well, does it not?
– fkraiem
May 24 at 11:31
It's also probably useful to know about the kernel release schedule wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support, it looks like you may have installed a point release which uses a later kernel. Hence 3.19 as the kernel version instead of 3.13 which is the original still supported kernel for 14.04.
– Arronical
May 24 at 9:45
It's also probably useful to know about the kernel release schedule wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support, it looks like you may have installed a point release which uses a later kernel. Hence 3.19 as the kernel version instead of 3.13 which is the original still supported kernel for 14.04.
– Arronical
May 24 at 9:45
@Arronical, so are you saying the apt search result is tailored against my current kernel version?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:58
@Arronical, so are you saying the apt search result is tailored against my current kernel version?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:58
There is no
linux-image-extra package, so it can't possibly show you the latest version of it. All the linux-image-extra-***-generic are different packages, and it is showing you the latest version of each.– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:19
There is no
linux-image-extra package, so it can't possibly show you the latest version of it. All the linux-image-extra-***-generic are different packages, and it is showing you the latest version of each.– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:19
And if you want to obtain a list of all packages whose name matches some keyword even when there are very many of them, packages.ubuntu.com is not the right tool for you.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:30
And if you want to obtain a list of all packages whose name matches some keyword even when there are very many of them, packages.ubuntu.com is not the right tool for you.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:30
1
1
Well it looks like
apt search works pretty well, does it not?– fkraiem
May 24 at 11:31
Well it looks like
apt search works pretty well, does it not?– fkraiem
May 24 at 11:31
 |Â
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Your search was too vague. Right at the top of the results is this message:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra in
suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 95
matching packages.
Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results
might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords.
Just by adding a 3.19 to the search terms, I get:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra
3.19 in suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 36 matching packages.
Including this:
If you want to see the kernel releases available, try searching linux-image lts for 14.04, or linux-image hwe for 16.04.
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newestlinux-image-extraavailable for'trusty'distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@muru are you suggesting even the count95is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
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Your search was too vague. Right at the top of the results is this message:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra in
suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 95
matching packages.
Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results
might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords.
Just by adding a 3.19 to the search terms, I get:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra
3.19 in suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 36 matching packages.
Including this:
If you want to see the kernel releases available, try searching linux-image lts for 14.04, or linux-image hwe for 16.04.
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newestlinux-image-extraavailable for'trusty'distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@muru are you suggesting even the count95is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
 |Â
show 2 more comments
up vote
3
down vote
Your search was too vague. Right at the top of the results is this message:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra in
suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 95
matching packages.
Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results
might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords.
Just by adding a 3.19 to the search terms, I get:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra
3.19 in suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 36 matching packages.
Including this:
If you want to see the kernel releases available, try searching linux-image lts for 14.04, or linux-image hwe for 16.04.
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newestlinux-image-extraavailable for'trusty'distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@muru are you suggesting even the count95is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
 |Â
show 2 more comments
up vote
3
down vote
up vote
3
down vote
Your search was too vague. Right at the top of the results is this message:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra in
suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 95
matching packages.
Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results
might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords.
Just by adding a 3.19 to the search terms, I get:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra
3.19 in suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 36 matching packages.
Including this:
If you want to see the kernel releases available, try searching linux-image lts for 14.04, or linux-image hwe for 16.04.
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
Your search was too vague. Right at the top of the results is this message:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra in
suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 95
matching packages.
Your keyword was too generic, for optimizing reasons some results
might have been suppressed.
Please consider using a longer keyword or more keywords.
Just by adding a 3.19 to the search terms, I get:
You have searched for packages that names contain linux-image-extra
3.19 in suite(s) trusty, all sections, and all architectures. Found 36 matching packages.
Including this:
If you want to see the kernel releases available, try searching linux-image lts for 14.04, or linux-image hwe for 16.04.
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
edited May 24 at 10:03
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
answered May 24 at 9:37
muru
129k19270460
129k19270460
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newestlinux-image-extraavailable for'trusty'distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@muru are you suggesting even the count95is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
 |Â
show 2 more comments
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newestlinux-image-extraavailable for'trusty'distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@muru are you suggesting even the count95is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
You can have this one ;-)
– Rinzwind
May 24 at 9:38
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newest
linux-image-extra available for 'trusty' distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
I use this vague search term intentionally, as I wanted to search for a newest
linux-image-extra available for 'trusty' distribution. why would they not showing results for 3.19 just because the search is fuzzy?– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:52
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@Sajuuk "for optimizing reasons some results might have been suppressed."
– muru
May 24 at 9:53
@muru are you suggesting even the count
95 is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@muru are you suggesting even the count
95 is the count after suppressing?, I must say this is a highly confusing search experience.– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:56
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
@Sajuuk why would you think that? The page certainly doesn't show 95 results. There are 95 results in all, and some have been suppressed in the output.
– muru
May 24 at 9:58
 |Â
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It's also probably useful to know about the kernel release schedule wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support, it looks like you may have installed a point release which uses a later kernel. Hence 3.19 as the kernel version instead of 3.13 which is the original still supported kernel for 14.04.
– Arronical
May 24 at 9:45
@Arronical, so are you saying the apt search result is tailored against my current kernel version?
– Sajuuk
May 24 at 9:58
There is no
linux-image-extrapackage, so it can't possibly show you the latest version of it. All thelinux-image-extra-***-genericare different packages, and it is showing you the latest version of each.– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:19
And if you want to obtain a list of all packages whose name matches some keyword even when there are very many of them, packages.ubuntu.com is not the right tool for you.
– fkraiem
May 24 at 10:30
1
Well it looks like
apt searchworks pretty well, does it not?– fkraiem
May 24 at 11:31