X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/e27a1f01f90f5eae73f66f25b316ee8859f72105..a1b5561a036ebbe416cccfb2bd476a838ddb6286:/doc/apt-cache.8.xml diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index f36347107..0955c1c9e 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - %aptent; @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ &apt-email; &apt-product; - 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z + 2012-06-09T00:00:00Z @@ -100,20 +100,20 @@ Reverse Provides: Pure virtual packages is the number of packages that exist only as a virtual package name; that is, packages only "provide" the virtual package name, and no package actually uses the name. For - instance, "mail-transport-agent" in the Debian GNU/Linux system is a + instance, "mail-transport-agent" in the Debian system is a pure virtual package; several packages provide "mail-transport-agent", but there is no package named "mail-transport-agent". Single virtual packages is the number of packages with only one package providing a particular virtual package. For example, in the - Debian GNU/Linux system, "X11-text-viewer" is a virtual package, but + Debian system, "X11-text-viewer" is a virtual package, but only one package, xless, provides "X11-text-viewer". Mixed virtual packages is the number of packages that either provide a particular virtual package or have the virtual package name - as the package name. For instance, in the Debian GNU/Linux system, + as the package name. For instance, in the Debian system, "debconf" is both an actual package, and provided by the debconf-tiny package. @@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ Reverse Provides: Total distinct versions is the number of package versions found in the cache; this value is therefore at least equal to the - number of total package names. If more than one distribution (both - "stable" and "unstable", for instance), is being accessed, this value + number of total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed + (for instance, "stable" and "unstable"), this value can be considerably larger than the number of total package names. @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Reverse Provides: showsrc displays all the source package records that match the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all - records that declare the name to be a Binary. + records that declare the name to be a binary package. @@ -168,9 +168,7 @@ Reverse Provides: search performs a full text search on all available package - lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see - regex - 7. + lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see ®ex;. 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, including virtual package @@ -216,9 +214,9 @@ Reverse Provides: set the APT::Cache::GivenOnly option. The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes, - pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds, + pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds, missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped - [leaf packages], blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts. + (leaf packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts. Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages. @@ -273,7 +271,8 @@ Reverse Provides: - Print only important dependencies; for use with unmet and depends. 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. @@ -301,7 +300,7 @@ Reverse Provides: Print full records for all available versions. This is the default; to turn it off, use . If is specified, only the candidate version - will displayed (the one which would be selected for installation). + will be displayed (the one which would be selected for installation). This option is only applicable to the show command. Configuration Item: APT::Cache::AllVersions.