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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2012-01-11 08:19:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2012-01-11 08:55:12 +0100 |
| commit | 752837564fcfe3129acb14fce109f8e0e34fca89 (patch) | |
| tree | 054542fc10d9eda35524d00796cab3b7eabedb5f /man/dpkg-query.1 | |
| parent | 999c8be906d0fc86d0890b47c0192136eafd76c5 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-752837564fcfe3129acb14fce109f8e0e34fca89.tar.gz | |
dpkg-query(1): Add a new subsection to explain virtual fields
Diffstat (limited to 'man/dpkg-query.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-query.1 | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-query.1 b/man/dpkg-query.1 index a9227bea1..c71e45542 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-query.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-query.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH dpkg\-query 1 "2011-08-14" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite" +.TH dpkg\-query 1 "2012-01-11" "Debian Project" "dpkg suite" .SH NAME dpkg\-query \- a tool to query the dpkg database . @@ -179,8 +179,15 @@ fields or fields stored in the binary package end up in it): \fBTriggers\-Awaited\fP (internal) \fBTriggers\-Pending\fP (internal) \fBVersion\fP - \fBshow:Summary\fP (virtual) - \fBshow:Status\-Abbrev\fP (virtual) +.fi + +The following are virtual fields, generated by \fBdpkg\-query\fP from +values from other fields (note that these do not use valid names for +fields in control files): + +.nf + \fBshow:Summary\fP + \fBshow:Status\-Abbrev\fP .fi The default format string is \(lq\fB${Package}\et${Version}\en\fP\(rq. |