X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/79f24b42cfa60fa79a427c5e37a01de303543a4b..d1b14e80cc22908d65445c9eb3926ebb4be190e7:/doc/apt-cache.8.xml diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index 2779f2501..21605ff0e 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ rdepends pkg pkgnames prefix dotty pkg + xvcg pkg policy pkgs madison pkgs @@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ Reverse Provides: 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 (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 @@ -197,9 +198,14 @@ 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. @@ -244,6 +250,11 @@ 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 meant to help debug issues relating to the preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the