X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/0be7a32e21dca2e96ce46f6e5b701011aea76586..aebe158d20055317ad630852d1d331716f61f0ba:/doc/apt-cache.8.xml?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index c1e65332d..c375f3893 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -197,9 +197,14 @@ Reverse Provides: search regex [ regex ... ] search 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 + regex + 7. + 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 is given + the package name and the short description, including virtual package + names. + If is given then output identical to show is produced for each matched package, and if is given then the long description is not searched, only the package name is. @@ -289,7 +294,7 @@ Reverse Provides: - Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet. Causes only Depends and + Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet and depends. Causes only Depends and Pre-Depends relations to be printed. Configuration Item: APT::Cache::Important.