CMake: Exclude .md5 and .map doxygen files from install

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

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index e20f66770caf5677fda03dc8bb728f7c47fc0354..4e2de26bc0a69f52794ff8c46eff921b012eab6d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->
-   <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
+   <date>2015-10-27T00:00:00Z</date>
  </refentryinfo>
  
  <refmeta>
@@ -32,10 +32,16 @@
  &synopsis-command-apt-cache;
 
  <refsect1><title>Description</title>
-   <para><command>apt-cache</command> performs a variety of operations on APT's package 
-   cache. <command>apt-cache</command> does not manipulate the state of the system 
-   but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output 
-   from the package metadata.</para>
+    <para>
+       <command>apt-cache</command> performs a variety of operations on APT's
+       package cache. <command>apt-cache</command> does not manipulate the
+       state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate
+       interesting output from the package metadata. The metadata is acquired
+       and updated via the 'update' command of e.g. <command>apt-get</command>,
+       so that it can be outdated if the last update is too long ago, but in
+       exchange <command>apt-cache</command> works independently of the
+       availability of the configured sources (e.g. offline).
+    </para>
 
    <para>Unless the <option>-h</option>, or <option>--help</option> option is given, one of the
    commands below must be present.</para>
@@ -122,8 +128,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
        </listitem>
 
        <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 is being accessed
+       found in the cache. 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>
@@ -136,9 +141,12 @@ Reverse Provides:
      </varlistentry>
      
      <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 package.</para></listitem>
+     <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 package. Use <option>--only-source</option> to
+     display only source package names.
+     </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      
      <varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term>
@@ -172,7 +180,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      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>
+     is not searched, only the package name and provided packages are.</para>
      <para>
      Separate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that 
      are and'ed together.</para></listitem>
@@ -291,8 +299,8 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <varlistentry><term><option>--implicit</option></term>
        <listitem><para>Per default <command>depends</command> and <command>rdepends</command>
              print only dependencies explicitly expressed in the metadata. With this flag
-             it will also show dependencies implicitely added based on the encountered data.
-             A <literal>Conflicts: foo</literal> e.g. expresses implicitely that this package
+             it will also show dependencies implicitly added based on the encountered data.
+             A <literal>Conflicts: foo</literal> e.g. expresses implicitly that this package
              also conflicts with the package foo from any other architecture.
              Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::ShowImplicit</literal>.
        </para></listitem>
@@ -319,7 +327,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>--names-only</option></term><term><option>-n</option></term>
-     <listitem><para>Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions. 
+     <listitem><para>Only search on the package and provided package names, not the long descriptions.
      Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::NamesOnly</literal>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>