fix build-dependency parser to understand [!arch] flags...

[apt.git] / doc / apt-cache.8.sgml

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
index 4490aea2a5eb542b8ea2501c857a5b6c99c0eb4d..2ed4c84b85739857337c87f481893c7e7b63a6fb 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
  <!-- Arguments -->
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
-      <command>apt-config</>
+      <command>apt-cache</>
       <arg><option>-hvs</></arg>
       <arg><option>-o=<replaceable/config string/</></arg>
       <arg><option>-c=<replaceable/file/</></arg>
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
          <arg>depends <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>policy <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkgs</replaceable></arg></arg>
       </group>   
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -53,8 +54,8 @@
    from the package metadata.
 
    <para>
-   Unless the <option/-h/, or <option/--help/ option is given one of the 
-   above commands must be present.
+   Unless the <option/-h/, or <option/--help/ option is given one of the
+   commands below must be present.
 
    <VariableList>
      <VarListEntry><Term>add</Term>
@@ -96,8 +97,8 @@ Reverse Provides:
 </programlisting></informalexample>
                            
      <para>
-     Thus it may be seen that libreadline2, version 2.1-8, depends on libc5,
-     ncurses3.0, and ldso, which must be installed for libreadline2 to work. 
+     Thus it may be seen that libreadline2, version 2.1-12, depends on libc5 and
+     ncurses3.0 which must be installed for libreadline2 to work. 
      In turn, libreadlineg2 and libreadline2-altdev depend on libreadline2. If
      libreadline2 is installed, libc5, ncurses3.0, and ldso must also be
      installed; libreadlineg2 and libreadline2-altdev do not have to be
@@ -242,6 +243,13 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <para>
      Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.
+     
+     <VarListEntry><Term>policy</Term>
+     <ListItem><Para>
+     <literal/policy/ is ment to help debug issues relating to the 
+     preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the 
+     priorities of each source. Otherwise it prints out detailed information
+     about the priority selection of the named package.
      </VarListEntry>
    </VariableList>
  </RefSect1>
@@ -318,7 +326,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <ListItem><Para>
      Make <literal/depends/ recursive so that all packages mentioned are 
      printed once.
-     Configuration Item: <literal/APT::Cache::RecruseDepends/.
+     Configuration Item: <literal/APT::Cache::RecurseDepends/.
      </VarListEntry>
 
      &apt-commonoptions;