merged the relevant bits from lp:~mvo/apt/lp346386

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

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index 3029512dbf3575c004a7e2903a306dd9541dd27e..0955c1c9ecdc27aaf1f7ae82b1af7c78148f3906 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
-<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
-  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
 
 <!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent">
 %aptent;
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->
-   <date>04 February 2011</date>
+   <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
  </refentryinfo>
  
  <refmeta>
@@ -100,20 +100,20 @@ Reverse Provides:
        <listitem><para><literal>Pure virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages that exist 
        only as a virtual package name; that is, packages only "provide" the 
        virtual package name, and no package actually uses the name. For 
-       instance, "mail-transport-agent" in the Debian GNU/Linux system is a 
+       instance, "mail-transport-agent" in the Debian system is a 
        pure virtual package; several packages provide "mail-transport-agent", 
        but there is no package named "mail-transport-agent".</para>
        </listitem>
    
        <listitem><para><literal>Single virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages with only 
        one package providing a particular virtual package. For example, in the
-       Debian GNU/Linux system, "X11-text-viewer" is a virtual package, but 
+       Debian system, "X11-text-viewer" is a virtual package, but 
        only one package, xless, provides "X11-text-viewer".</para>
        </listitem>
 
        <listitem><para><literal>Mixed virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages that either 
        provide a particular virtual package or have the virtual package name 
-       as the package name. For instance, in the Debian GNU/Linux system, 
+       as the package name. For instance, in the Debian system, 
        "debconf" is both an actual package, and provided by the debconf-tiny
        package.</para>
        </listitem>
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
        <listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions 
        found in the cache; this value is therefore at least equal to the 
-       number of total package names. If more than one distribution (both 
-       "stable" and "unstable", for instance), is being accessed, this value 
+       number of total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed
+       (for instance, "stable" and "unstable"), this value
        can be considerably larger than the number of total package names.</para>
        </listitem>
 
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <varlistentry><term><option>showsrc</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
      <listitem><para><literal>showsrc</literal> displays all the source package records that match
      the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all 
-     records that declare the name to be a Binary.</para></listitem>
+     records that declare the name to be a binary package.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      
      <varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term>
@@ -168,9 +168,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>search</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-regex;</replaceable>…</option></term>
      <listitem><para><literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available package
-     lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see 
-     <citerefentry><refentrytitle><command>regex</command></refentrytitle>
-     <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+     lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see &regex;.
      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, including virtual package
@@ -216,9 +214,9 @@ Reverse Provides:
      set the <literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</literal> option.</para>
 
      <para>The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes,
-     pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds, 
+     pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds,
      missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped 
-     [leaf packages], blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para>
+     (leaf packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para>
 
      <para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -273,7 +271,8 @@ Reverse Provides:
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>-i</option></term><term><option>--important</option></term>
-     <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet and depends. Causes only Depends and 
+     <listitem><para>Print only important dependencies; for use with <literal>unmet</literal>
+     and <literal>depends</literal>. Causes only Depends and
      Pre-Depends relations to be printed.
      Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Important</literal>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
@@ -301,7 +300,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <listitem><para>Print full records for all available versions. This is the
      default; to turn it off, use <option>--no-all-versions</option>.
      If <option>--no-all-versions</option> is specified, only the candidate version
-     will displayed (the one which would be selected for installation).
+     will be displayed (the one which would be selected for installation).
      This option is only applicable to  the <literal>show</literal> command.
      Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::AllVersions</literal>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>