From 696268f76d9ac92a137e93687a257305d00da43b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luca Bruno Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:11:57 +0200 Subject: * doc/apt-cache.8.xml: - search command uses POSIX regex, and searches for virtual packages too (closes: #277536) --- debian/changelog | 3 +++ doc/apt-cache.8.xml | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 241766330..8fa4c48d1 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ apt (0.7.15~exp4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low [Luca Bruno] + * doc/apt-cache.8.xml: + - search command uses POSIX regex, and searches for virtual packages too + (closes: #277536) * doc/offline.sgml: clarify remote and target hosts (thanks to Nikolaus Schulz, closes: #175940) * Fix several typos in docs, translations and debian/changelog diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index c1e65332d..7ba004623 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -197,9 +197,14 @@ Reverse Provides: search regex [ regex ... ] search 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 + regex + 7. + 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 is given + the package name and the short description, including virtual package + names. + If is given then output identical to show is produced for each matched package, and if is given then the long description is not searched, only the package name is. -- cgit v1.2.3