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| author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:54:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:54:56 +0000 |
| commit | c373c37a2edf384b658c8d054bdcc55464900863 (patch) | |
| tree | 1533d3c3d39bdfbe24d8f4d1fa641d2f2c190ff2 /doc | |
| parent | 243a3e7491a3b001eb83bcbdfa6ea3b1c0656703 (diff) | |
Regexs for install
Author: jgg
Date: 1999-10-21 06:35:00 GMT
Regexs for install
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-get.8.yo | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.yo b/doc/apt-get.8.yo index 918d17b1c..393f9ec6f 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.yo +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.yo @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ hyphen is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is installed. This latter feature may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system. +If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one +of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regex and it is applied +to all package names in the database. Any matches are then installed (or +removed). + dit(bf(remove)) bf(remove) is identical to bf(install) except that packages are removed instead of installed. If a plus sign is appended to the package name (with no |