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author | Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> | 2006-10-26 22:33:50 +0100 |
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committer | Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> | 2006-10-26 22:33:50 +0100 |
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diff --git a/man/sync-available.8 b/man/sync-available.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8fbbf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/sync-available.8 @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +.TH SYNC\-AVAILABLE 8 2005-07-11 "Debian Project" "Debian administrator's manual" +\" Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> +\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +\" (at your option) any later version. +\" +\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +\" GNU General Public License for more details. +\" +\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +\" along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to +\" the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, +\" Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. +.SH NAME +sync\-available \- sync dpkg's available database with apt's database +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B sync\-available +.sp +.B sync\-available --version +.sp +.B sync\-available --help +.SH DESCRIPTION +This program updates the +.BR dpkg (8) +available database with the data in the +.BR apt (8) +package database. This is required for +.BR grep\-available (1) +and other similar programs to give up-to-date results. +.PP +The same functionality is available through +.BR dselect (8), +when it is configured to use +.BR apt (8) +as its acquisition method. However, this program does not require that +.BR dselect (8) +is installed. +.SH "EXIT STATUS" +The program exits with status code 0 if all went well, and a non-zero +status code otherwise. +.SH OPTIONS +.IP --version +Output the name and version of the program onto standard output stream. +.IP --help +Give a brief usage statement on the standard output stream. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.IP TMPDIR +The name of the directory where temporary files are created. Default is +.IR /tmp . +.SH AUTHOR +This program and this manual page were written by Antti-Juhani +Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org>. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR apt (8), +.BR dpkg (8), +.BR dselect (8), +.BR grep\-available (1) |