Equivalent of Synaptic "Origin" feature in apt/dpkg?

[Ubuntooid]

In Synaptic there is an "Origin" button among others in left bottom corner which allows to view packages grouped by sources from which they were installed.

Is there a possibility of doing something similar using apt-cache, apt-get or dkpg ?

[renbla]

It seems like there isn't. But why do you need to know it??

[Ubuntooid]

Why? Synaptic takes a while to start on my not-so-new machine, command line tools are far more quicker. Also, I may need to write some bash script that uses this feature in the future.

[oldos2er]

I think 'origin' can be found with dpkg-query. Not sure of the syntax though, but you can look here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/man1/dpkg-query.1.html .

[Ubuntooid]

Command

dpkg-query -W -f '${Package}\t${Origin}'
shows the same as

dpkg-query -W -f '${Package}',
that is it doesn't show anything for Origin.

I've found some Python script at http://goonmill.org/static/dpkg-origins that does what I wanted.

Also at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/2005/08/msg01157.html someone has written interesting scripts, but comments are in French.