X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/24f6490f4ba3572069619d88e053db5cb07e846c..bb1293d975294884a95b9cb298432c9cf9ecc995:/doc/apt-cache.8.xml diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index f2a49f3fa..538de3c27 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -8,11 +8,20 @@ ]> - &apt-docinfo; + + + &apt-author.jgunthorpe; + &apt-author.team; + &apt-email; + &apt-product; + + 29 February 2004 + apt-cache 8 + APT @@ -43,6 +52,7 @@ rdepends pkg pkgnames prefix dotty pkg + xvcg pkg policy pkgs madison pkgs @@ -141,9 +151,9 @@ Reverse Provides: Missing is the number of package names that were referenced in 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 + be an 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. + are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements. Total distinct versions is the number of package versions @@ -183,15 +193,20 @@ Reverse Provides: show pkg(s) show performs a function similar to - dpkg --print-availi; it displays the package records for the + dpkg --print-avail; it displays the package records for the named packages. 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. @@ -206,16 +221,19 @@ Reverse Provides: rdepends pkg(s) - rdependsshows a listing of each reverse dependency a + rdepends shows a listing of each reverse dependency a package has. pkgnames [ prefix ] - This command prints the name of each package in the system. The optional + This command prints the name of each package APT knows. The optional argument is a prefix match to filter the name list. The output is suitable for use in a shell tab complete function and the output is generated extremely quickly. This command is best used with the - option. + option. + Note that a package which APT knows of is not necessarily available to download, + installable or installed, e.g. virtual packages are also listed in the generated list. + dotty pkg(s) @@ -236,8 +254,13 @@ Reverse Provides: Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages. + xvcg pkg(s) + The same as dotty, only for xvcg from the + VCG tool. + + policy [ pkg(s) ] - policy is ment to help debug issues relating to the + policy is meant to help debug issues relating to the preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the priorities of each source. Otherwise it prints out detailed information about the priority selection of the named package. @@ -269,7 +292,7 @@ Reverse Provides: Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by gencaches 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: Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache. @@ -281,7 +304,7 @@ 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. @@ -337,21 +360,8 @@ Reverse Provides: Files - /etc/apt/sources.list - Locations to fetch packages from. - Configuration Item: Dir::Etc::SourceList. - - - &statedir;/lists/ - Storage area for state information for each package resource specified in - &sources-list; - Configuration Item: Dir::State::Lists. - - - &statedir;/lists/partial/ - Storage area for state information in transit. - Configuration Item: Dir::State::Lists (implicit partial). - + &file-sourceslist; + &file-statelists; @@ -366,6 +376,5 @@ Reverse Provides: &manbugs; - &manauthor;