2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.cc b/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.cc
index 4414792cf..aeed31263 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.cc
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ std::unique_ptr<APT::CacheFilter::Matcher> PatternParser::aPattern(std::unique_p
 
    if (node->matches("?architecture", 1, 1))
       return std::make_unique<APT::CacheFilter::PackageArchitectureMatchesSpecification>(aWord(node->arguments[0]));
+   if (node->matches("?archive", 1, 1))
+      return std::make_unique<Patterns::VersionIsArchive>(aWord(node->arguments[0]));
    if (node->matches("?automatic", 0, 0))
       return std::make_unique<Patterns::PackageIsAutomatic>(file);
    if (node->matches("?broken", 0, 0))
diff --git a/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.h b/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.h
index 46a54cf81..c92a152d6 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/cachefilter-patterns.h
@@ -260,6 +260,21 @@ struct VersionAnyMatcher : public Matcher
    }
 };
 
+struct VersionIsArchive : public VersionAnyMatcher
+{
+   BaseRegexMatcher matcher;
+   VersionIsArchive(std::string const &pattern) : matcher(pattern) {}
+   bool operator()(pkgCache::VerIterator const &Ver) override
+   {
+      for (auto VF = Ver.FileList(); not VF.end(); VF++)
+      {
+	 if (VF.File().Archive() && matcher(VF.File().Archive()))
+	    return true;
+      }
+      return false;
+   }
+};
+
 struct VersionIsSourcePackage : public VersionAnyMatcher
 {
    BaseRegexMatcher matcher;