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authorMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2015-06-23 12:17:35 +0100
committerMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2015-06-23 12:17:35 +0100
commit245dde96193702f7f51389d3583dee547f8ba366 (patch)
tree6cf8c191641c760bcc6a6c08fb0ff65d27e0cffd /doc/apt-get.8.xml
parent5530255b5f3ad7de2e23dfcb39ce325001126501 (diff)
parentc8a4ce6cbed57ae108dc955d4a850f9b129a0693 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'donkult/debian/experimental' into debian/experimental
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</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>changelog</option></term>
- <listitem><para><literal>changelog</literal> downloads a package changelog and displays
- it through <command>sensible-pager</command>. The server name and base
- directory is defined in the <literal>APT::Changelogs::Server</literal>
- variable (e.g. <ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/changelogs">packages.debian.org/changelogs</ulink> for
- Debian or <ulink url="http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs">changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs</ulink> for
- Ubuntu).
- By default it displays the changelog for the version that is
- installed. However, you can specify the same options as for
- the <option>install</option> command.
- </para>
+ <listitem><para><literal>changelog</literal> tries to download the
+ changelog of a package and displays it through
+ <command>sensible-pager</command>. By default it
+ displays the changelog for the version that is installed.
+ However, you can specify the same options as for the
+ <option>install</option> command.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>files</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>Displays by default a deb822 formatted listing of
+ information about all data files <command>apt-get
+ update</command> would download. Supports a
+ <option>--format</option> option to modify the output format as
+ well as accepts lines of the default output to filter the records
+ by. The command is mainly used as an interface for external tools
+ working with APT to get information as well as filenames for
+ downloaded files so they can use them as well instead of
+ downloading them again on their own. Detailed documentation is
+ omitted here and can instead be found in the source tree in
+ <literal><filename>doc/acquire-additional-files.txt</filename></literal>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>