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authorMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2011-05-16 15:57:52 +0200
committerMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2011-05-16 15:57:52 +0200
commitd44b706c2d5964daaaf55e6eb97845827958f6e3 (patch)
treeb77f6e72c34c2444ec28e2d47430211d802efb4b /doc/apt-mark.8.xml
parent9c192d2811c12dcaf607024eb7f0677b011194e6 (diff)
parentd77b985a309c379d4978525172a72b728fecd15e (diff)
merged from lp:~donkult/apt/sid
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-mark.8.xml')
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-mark.8.xml67
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-mark.8.xml b/doc/apt-mark.8.xml
index ec50d6f76..01c8665dd 100644
--- a/doc/apt-mark.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-mark.8.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>9 August 2009</date>
+ <date>21 April 2011</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
@@ -42,12 +42,13 @@
<group choice="plain">
<arg choice="plain">
<group choice="req">
- <arg choice="plain">markauto</arg>
- <arg choice="plain">unmarkauto</arg>
+ <arg choice="plain">auto</arg>
+ <arg choice="plain">manual</arg>
+ <arg choice="plain">showauto</arg>
+ <arg choice="plain">showmanual</arg>
</group>
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>package</replaceable></arg>
</arg>
- <arg choice="plain">showauto</arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -65,27 +66,60 @@
<command>apt-get</command> or <command>aptitude</command>.
</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>markauto</term>
- <listitem><para><literal>markauto</literal> is used to mark a
+ <varlistentry><term>auto</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>auto</literal> is used to mark a
package as being automatically installed, which will cause the
package to be removed when no more manually installed packages
depend on this package.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>unmarkauto</term>
- <listitem><para><literal>unmarkauto</literal> is used to mark a
+ <varlistentry><term>manual</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>manual</literal> is used to mark a
package as being manually installed, which will prevent the
package from being automatically removed if no other packages
depend on it.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term>hold</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>hold</literal> is used to mark a
+ package as hold back, which will prevent the package from being
+ automatically installed, upgraded or removed.
+ The command is only a wrapper around <command>dpkg --set-selections</command>
+ and the state is therefore maintained by &dpkg; and not effected
+ by the <option>--filename</option> option.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>unhold</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>unhold</literal> is used to cancel a
+ previously set hold on a package to allow all actions again.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>showauto</term>
<listitem><para><literal>showauto</literal> is used to print a
list of automatically installed packages with each package on a new line.
+ All automatically installed packages will be listed if no package is given.
+ If packages are given only those which are automatically installed will be shown.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>showmanual</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>showmanual</literal> can be used in
+ the same way as <literal>showauto</literal> except that it will print
+ a list of manually installed packages instead.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>showhold</term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>showhold</literal> is used to print a list
+ of packages on hold in the same way as for the other show commands.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
@@ -102,23 +136,8 @@
is <filename>extended_status</filename> in the directory defined
by the Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::State</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry><term><option>-h</option></term>
- <term><option>--help</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Show a short usage summary.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
- <varlistentry>
- <term><option>-v</option></term>
- <term><option>--version</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Show the program version.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
+ &apt-commonoptions;
</variablelist>
</refsect1>