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author | Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> | 2012-05-24 17:12:46 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> | 2012-05-24 17:12:46 +0200 |
commit | 7179db10f64809d1265da56496cde044d86cee29 (patch) | |
tree | 82834a754957d58a76e475c5703de08411d2f3d0 /doc/apt-cache.8.xml | |
parent | 4c86a6348d9916b6404709452affa10e9c776efa (diff) | |
parent | 1d254cb23a090f69ea53c740dd988e99ee13a247 (diff) |
merged from david
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-cache.8.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-cache.8.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index cf6303268..e6e6f32a9 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ Reverse Provides: <listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions found in the cache; this value is therefore at least equal to the - number of total package names. If more than one distribution (both - "stable" and "unstable", for instance), is being accessed, this value + number of total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed + (for instance, "stable" and "unstable"), this value can be considerably larger than the number of total package names.</para> </listitem> @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Reverse Provides: <varlistentry><term><option>showsrc</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term> <listitem><para><literal>showsrc</literal> displays all the source package records that match the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all - records that declare the name to be a Binary.</para></listitem> + records that declare the name to be a binary package.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term> @@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ Reverse Provides: set the <literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</literal> option.</para> <para>The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes, - pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds, + pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds, missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped - [leaf packages], blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para> + (leaf packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para> <para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -271,7 +271,8 @@ Reverse Provides: </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>-i</option></term><term><option>--important</option></term> - <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet and depends. Causes only Depends and + <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with <literal>unmet</literal> + and <literal>depends</literal>. Causes only Depends and Pre-Depends relations to be printed. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Important</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ Reverse Provides: <listitem><para>Print full records for all available versions. This is the default; to turn it off, use <option>--no-all-versions</option>. If <option>--no-all-versions</option> is specified, only the candidate version - will displayed (the one which would be selected for installation). + will be displayed (the one which would be selected for installation). This option is only applicable to the <literal>show</literal> command. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::AllVersions</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> |