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author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-04-07 05:23:44 +0200 |
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committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-04-10 04:23:58 +0200 |
commit | 1c7fbcdb7ca2175658d0d8d6ec2b6ab2582bdc09 (patch) | |
tree | 8aa0c79f53fb07991b70e541e683b5ecce0192f4 /man | |
parent | 961545d6a5835ffe6f22266e8f7bf68f118efe5e (diff) | |
download | dpkg-1c7fbcdb7ca2175658d0d8d6ec2b6ab2582bdc09.tar.gz |
man: Fix option values and pathname markup in dpkg-deb(1)
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-rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-deb.1 | 29 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-deb.1 b/man/dpkg-deb.1 index 70252e398..5b93e2d36 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-deb.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-deb.1 @@ -127,14 +127,14 @@ on one line, separated by a tabulator. Extracts control file information from a binary package archive. If no -.BR control-field-name s +.IR control-field-name s are specified then it will print the whole control file. If any are specified then .B dpkg\-deb will print their contents, in the order in which they appear in the control file. If more than one -.BR control-field-name +.IR control-field-name is specified then .B dpkg\-deb will precede each with its field name (and a colon and space). @@ -170,8 +170,9 @@ which prints a listing of the files extracted as it goes. .TP .BR \-R ", " \-\-raw\-extract " \fIarchive directory\fP" Extracts the filesystem tree from a package archive into a specified -directory, and the control information files into a DEBIAN subdirectory -of the specified directory (since dpkg 1.16.1). +directory, and the control information files into a +.B DEBIAN +subdirectory of the specified directory (since dpkg 1.16.1). The target directory (but not its parents) will be created if necessary. @@ -240,28 +241,28 @@ equivalent to compressor none for all compressors. .TP .BI \-S compress-strategy Specify which compression strategy to use on the compressor backend, when -building a package (since dpkg 1.16.2). Allowed values are \fInone\fP (since -dpkg 1.16.4), \fIfiltered\fP, \fIhuffman\fP, \fIrle\fP and \fIfixed\fP for -gzip (since dpkg 1.17.0) and \fIextreme\fP for xz. +building a package (since dpkg 1.16.2). Allowed values are \fBnone\fP (since +dpkg 1.16.4), \fBfiltered\fP, \fBhuffman\fP, \fBrle\fP and \fBfixed\fP for +gzip (since dpkg 1.17.0) and \fBextreme\fP for xz. .TP .BI \-Z compress-type Specify which compression type to use when building a package. -Allowed values are \fIgzip\fP, \fIxz\fP (since dpkg 1.15.6), -\fIbzip2\fP (deprecated), \fIlzma\fP (since dpkg 1.14.0; deprecated), -and \fInone\fP (default is \fIxz\fP). +Allowed values are \fBgzip\fP, \fBxz\fP (since dpkg 1.15.6), +\fBbzip2\fP (deprecated), \fBlzma\fP (since dpkg 1.14.0; deprecated), +and \fBnone\fP (default is \fBxz\fP). .TP .B \-\-uniform\-compression Specify that the same compression parameters should be used for all archive members (i.e. \fBcontrol.tar\fP and \fBdata.tar\fP; since dpkg 1.17.6). Otherwise only the \fBdata.tar\fP member will use those parameters. The only supported -compression types allowed to be uniformly used are \fInone\fP, \fIgzip\fP -and \fIxz\fP. +compression types allowed to be uniformly used are \fBnone\fP, \fBgzip\fP +and \fBxz\fP. .TP .BI \-\-deb\-format= format Set the archive format version used when building (since dpkg 1.17.0). -Allowed values are \fI2.0\fP for the new format, and \fI0.939000\fP -for the old one (default is \fI2.0\fP). +Allowed values are \fB2.0\fP for the new format, and \fB0.939000\fP +for the old one (default is \fB2.0\fP). The old archive format is less easily parsed by non-Debian tools and is now obsolete; its only use is when building packages to be parsed by |