* In apt.conf(5), give the fully qualified name of Dir:...

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

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
index 93fce51c2d5d89199c75fbc02bef6b4e9483ad66..e4b50d387a707e8304a93d8c4b038afa6a622d95 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
@@ -206,15 +206,15 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <VarListEntry><Term>search <replaceable/regex [ regex ... ]/</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package 
-     files for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the 
-     descriptions for an occurrence of the string and prints out the package 
-     name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given then output 
-     identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched package, and 
-     if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description is not 
-     searched, only the package name is.
+     <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package
+     lists for the regex pattern given. 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/ is given
+     then output identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched
+     package, and if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description
+     is not searched, only the package name is.
      <para>
-     Seperate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that 
+     Separate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that 
      are and'ed together.
      </VarListEntry>
 
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <para>
      Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.
      
-     <VarListEntry><Term>policy <replaceable/[ pkg(s) ]</Term>
+     <VarListEntry><Term>policy <replaceable/[ pkg(s) ]/</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      <literal/policy/ is ment to help debug issues relating to the 
      preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the 
@@ -292,14 +292,14 @@ Reverse Provides:
      <VarListEntry><term><option/-q/</><term><option/--quiet/</>
      <ListItem><Para>
      Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators.
-     More qs will produce more quietness up to a maximum of 2. You can also use
+     More q's will produce more quietness up to a maximum of 2. You can also use
      <option/-q=#/ to set the quietness level, overriding the configuration file.
      Configuration Item: <literal/quiet/.
      </VarListEntry>
 
      <VarListEntry><term><option/-i/</><term><option/--important/</>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     Print only important deps; for use with unmet. Causes only Depends and 
+     Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet. Causes only Depends and 
      Pre-Depends relations to be printed.
      Configuration Item: <literal/APT::Cache::Important/.
      </VarListEntry>
@@ -312,8 +312,11 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <VarListEntry><term><option/-a/</><term><option/--all-versions/</>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     Print full records for all available versions. This is only applicable to 
-     the <literal/show/ command. 
+     Print full records for all available versions. This is the
+     default; to turn it off, use <option/--no-all-versions/.
+     If <option/--no-all-versions/ is specified, only the candidate version
+     will displayed (the one which would be selected for installation).
+     This option is only applicable to  the <literal/show/ command.
      Configuration Item: <literal/APT::Cache::AllVersions/.
      </VarListEntry>
 
@@ -324,7 +327,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
      Configuration Item: <literal/APT::Cache::Generate/.
      </VarListEntry>
 
-     <VarListEntry><term><option/--names-only/</><term><options/-n/</>
+     <VarListEntry><term><option/--names-only/</><term><option/-n/</>
      <ListItem><Para>
      Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions. 
      Configuration Item: <literal/APT::Cache::NamesOnly/.