Mentioned '/* ... */' comments. (Closes: #507601)

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

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index 0e1d2f8d9b429de65430550965537705fee017d0..21605ff0e02a3f9fff69e410c1e520a470ab4e50 100644 (file)
--- 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>   
@@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
        a dependency but were not provided by any package. Missing packages may 
        be in evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a package
        (real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually they
-       are referenced from Conflicts statements.</para>
+       are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements.</para>
        </listitem>
 
        <listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions 
@@ -191,15 +192,20 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <varlistentry><term>show <replaceable>pkg(s)</replaceable></term>
      <listitem><para><literal>show</literal> performs a function similar to 
-     <command>dpkg --print-avail</command>i; it displays the package records for the 
+     <command>dpkg --print-avail</command>; it displays the package records for the 
      named packages.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <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 
@@ -277,7 +288,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <listitem><para>Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by
      <literal>gencaches</literal> and it stores a parsed version of the package 
      information from remote sources. When building the package cache the 
-     source cache is used to advoid reparsing all of the package files.
+     source cache is used to avoid reparsing all of the package files.
      Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache</literal>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>