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authorMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2008-10-10 23:03:50 +0200
committerMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2008-10-10 23:03:50 +0200
commitc9d62df7accc468482f9b91edcbbbd7f41bba707 (patch)
treed149b7db33842859d7f91615c07b03a8df6e512e /doc/apt-cache.8.xml
parent12f894a435b5c6766835be434be41734e1ee631c (diff)
parent5b42c812e5f689206f5e3ad4196f17c97ca34415 (diff)
* doc/apt-cache.8.xml:
- search command uses POSIX regex, and searches for virtual packages too (closes: #277536) * doc/offline.sgml: clarify remote and target hosts (thanks to Nikolaus Schulz, closes: #175940) * Fix several typos in docs, translations and debian/changelog (thanks to timeless, Nicolas Bonifas and Josh Triplett, closes: #368665, #298821, #411532, #431636, #461458) * Document apt-key finger and adv commands (thanks to Stefan Schmidt, closes: #350575) * Better documentation for apt-get --option (thanks to Tomas Pospisek, closes: #386579) * Retitle the apt-mark.8 manpage (thanks to Justin Pryzby, closes: #471276) * Better documentation on using both APT::Default-Release and /etc/apt/preferences (thanks to Ingo Saitz, closes: #145575) * fix FTBFS by changing build-depends to * ABI library name change because it's built against * Package that contains all the new features * Branch that contains all the new features:
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diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index c1e65332d..7ba004623 100644
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -197,9 +197,14 @@ Reverse Provides:
<varlistentry><term>search <replaceable>regex [ regex ... ]</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para><literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available package
- lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the
+ lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see
+ <refentrytitle><command>regex</command></refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>.
+ It searches the package names and the
descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out
- the package name and the short description. If <option>--full</option> is given
+ the package name and the short description, including virtual package
+ names.
+ If <option>--full</option> is given
then output identical to <literal>show</literal> is produced for each matched
package, and if <option>--names-only</option> is given then the long description
is not searched, only the package name is.</para>