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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-cache.8.sgml | 14 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index cd02a3b08..9e8a40168 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ apt (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low the package is being purged (Closes: #182369) - Fix extra "/" character in apt.conf(5) (Closes: #185545) - Fix typo in tar error message (Closes: #191424) + - Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Closes: #192216) -- diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml index 93fce51c2..49d2020d5 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml @@ -206,13 +206,13 @@ Reverse Provides: <VarListEntry><Term>search <replaceable/regex [ regex ... ]/</Term> <ListItem><Para> - <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package - files for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the - descriptions for an occurrence of the string and prints out the package - name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given then output - identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched package, and - if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description is not - searched, only the package name is. + <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package + lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the + descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out + the package name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given + then output identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched + package, and if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description + is not searched, only the package name is. <para> Seperate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that are and'ed together. |