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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-11-26 11:45:44 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-11-26 11:46:06 +0100
commit94b185bb738e063bcc387e31b39dcd041f283766 (patch)
treea1d7b4120c1bedfb1b153b1d37c85b9c878392af /doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
parent6801e6d2c63d4ff087024fc84a0feb8aef86886b (diff)
patterns: Implement ?narrow(...), as ?any-version(?and(...))
This is pure syntactic sugar - ?narrow does not exist in the abstract syntax.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-patterns.7.xml')
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diff --git a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
index 102ed3901..c2549f620 100644
--- a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@
<listitem><para>Selects any version where the pattern matches on the version.</para>
<para>For example, while <code>?and(?version(1),?version(2))</code> matches a package which has one version containing 1 and one version containing 2, <code>?any-version(?and(?version(1),?version(2)))</code> restricts the <code>?and</code> to act on the same version.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><code>?narrow(PATTERN...)</code></term>
+ <listitem><para>Selects any version matching all PATTERNs, short for<code>?any-version(?and(PATTERN...))</code>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
@@ -181,6 +184,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>A trailing comma is allowed in argument lists</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>?narrow accepts infinite arguments</para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</refsect1>