* apt-ftparchive might write corrupt Release files (LP: #46439)

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

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index c359ac3d8dc67f34c22de5a4e45d70f4c3c52d53..c375f3893493db068064548323d7f271cb1311f6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -197,9 +197,14 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <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>