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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-cache.8.xml')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index c359ac3d8..6c8938d8c 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ <arg>rdepends <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg> <arg>pkgnames <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>prefix</replaceable></arg></arg> <arg>dotty <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg> + <arg>xvcg <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg> <arg>policy <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkgs</replaceable></arg></arg> <arg>madison <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkgs</replaceable></arg></arg> </group> @@ -197,9 +198,14 @@ Reverse Provides: <varlistentry><term>search <replaceable>regex [ regex ... ]</replaceable></term> <listitem><para><literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available package - lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the + lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see + <citerefentry><refentrytitle><command>regex</command></refentrytitle> + <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>. + 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</option> is given + the package name and the short description, including virtual package + names. + If <option>--full</option> is given then output identical to <literal>show</literal> is produced for each matched package, and if <option>--names-only</option> is given then the long description is not searched, only the package name is.</para> @@ -244,6 +250,11 @@ Reverse Provides: <para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term>xvcg <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term> + <listitem><para>The same as <literal>dotty</literal>, only for xvcg from the + <ulink url="http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html">VCG tool</ulink>. + </para></listitem></varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term>policy <replaceable>[ pkg(s) ]</replaceable></term> <listitem><para><literal>policy</literal> is meant to help debug issues relating to the preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the |