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2015-12-28man: Document and improve C/C++ programs exit codesGuillem Jover1-3/+9
2015-12-28man: Add missing quotesGuillem Jover1-2/+2
2015-12-25man: Clarify in dpkg-query(1) when binary:Package gets arch-qualifiedGuillem Jover1-3/+3
In commit d658a8ec1110c9b3b20987cd903a54f59801117f the semantics of the arch-qualifications changed, update the documentation to reflect that. Closes: #801958
2015-04-10man: Use various groff escape sequences for quoting charactersGuillem Jover1-8/+10
2015-04-06man: Document version when new features were introducedGuillem Jover1-4/+7
This should make it easier for people to know when it is safe to use a feature, or if those features are available in older versions, for example when backporting packages.
2015-01-26man: Document dpkg-query --search behaviorGuillem Jover1-3/+13
Add how the pattern is interpreted as a substring match, or as a literal path lookup. And explain how some metacharacters behave. Closes: #775379
2015-01-26man: Use “wildcard characters” instead of “wildchars” in dpkg-query(1)Guillem Jover1-2/+2
2014-08-17dpkg-query(1): Merge binary:Package descriptionsGuillem Jover1-8/+6
2014-08-15dpkg-query(1): Describe virtual fieldsGuillem Jover1-12/+34
Add short description to each virtual field, and mention the version they got introduced in dpkg.
2014-08-09libdpkg: Add db:Status-Want, db:Status-Status and db:Status-Eflag fieldsGuillem Jover1-0/+3
These are virtual fields for the database Status field, which will allow easier access to the specific status values.
2014-05-17man: Attempt to clarify and improve wording of some strange constructsGuillem Jover1-4/+4
Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann
2014-04-21dpkg-query(1): Document the --control-path life expectancyGuillem Jover1-2/+9
There's still at least one scenario that can only be covered by --control-path, and as long as that's the case the command will not get removed. Ref: #699647
2013-12-07Use https:// URLs instead of http:// when possibleGuillem Jover1-1/+1
2013-04-04man: Mark programs, variables, fields and command-line options in boldGuillem Jover1-6/+7
2013-03-18man: Remove unneeded double quotes in .SH headingsGuillem Jover1-1/+1
2012-06-30Switch some words to their american spellingGuillem Jover1-1/+1
2012-06-30Change all programs to accept -? instead of -h for help outputGuillem Jover1-1/+1
This switch frees the -h option to be used in the distant future for other purposes, it also uses a character that does not have any other obvious meaning for help output, and which is pretty safe to be used blindly by the user in the same way as --help.
2012-06-30dpkg-query: Add new --control-list and --control-show commandsGuillem Jover1-4/+10
These replace the now deprecated --control-path command, as these do not rely on any specific database layout.
2012-04-03dpkg-query(1): Document multiple paragraph command output orderGuillem Jover1-5/+7
These will preserve the order of the packages specified on the argument list.
2012-03-15dpkg-query(1): fix small typoRaphaël Hertzog1-1/+1
2012-03-14dpkg-query: Update output commands to print package specifiersGuillem Jover1-4/+9
This affects --list and --show. Also use package specifiers in the default output format and document this change in the manual page. Based-on-patch-by: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Patch-sponsored-by: Linaro Limited Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
2012-03-14dpkg-query: Only load the available file on -l or -W with new --load-availGuillem Jover1-2/+6
Change the default behaviour of not loading the available file depending on whether arguments have been passed to the commands, to instead adding a new explicit option to let the user request the additional information from the available file. This is needed to avoid confusion given that with multiarch the available file can contain multiple instances for the same package.
2012-02-07man: Drop AUTHORS sections in favor of comments in sourceRaphaël Hertzog1-6/+20
This section usually contains copyright notices which can be updated quite often and thus generate useless work for translators. Furthermore this section was often confusing by mixing authors of the documented software and authors of the manual page. So instead of keeping this in the generated manual page, we move this information where it belongs, in a file comment header above the license information. This commit adds the copyright & license statements to all manual pages in comments at the top of each file. Information from the git history has been used where there was no pre-existing copyright statements.
2012-02-01libdpkg: Add virtual binary:Package fieldGuillem Jover1-0/+1
This will allow printing package specifiers on query format strings. Based-on-patch-by: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Patch-sponsored-by: Linaro Limited Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
2012-01-11libdpkg: Add virtual source:Package and source:Version fieldsGuillem Jover1-0/+2
Closes: #653575
2012-01-11Rename “show:” virtual fields to binary:Summary and db:Status-AbbrevGuillem Jover1-2/+2
Use more meaningful namespaces for the fields, matching the existing convention used in substvars.
2012-01-11dpkg-query(1): Reduce Tag field description to fit it in one lineGuillem Jover1-1/+1
2012-01-11dpkg-query(1): Add a new subsection to explain virtual fieldsGuillem Jover1-3/+10
2011-12-22dpkg-query(1): Escape dash on field nameGuillem Jover1-1/+1
Regression introduced in commit 255417d2757da6a381b563cab4ae430767e41817.
2011-12-22libdpkg: Add short Description and Status virtual field variantsGuillem Jover1-0/+2
This adds support for show:Summary and show:Status-Abbrev virtual output fields. They get namespaced with “show:” to not stomp over possible fields with the same name coming from binary package or databases, which would make them inaccessible from dpkg-query. Closes: #192619, #427945
2011-08-20man: Use minus signs and hyphens consistentlyGuillem Jover1-3/+3
Any string that can be copy & pasted into control files or into a terminal, for example, needs to correctly use minus signs (escaped dashes), instead of the default hyphen.
2011-07-07Refer to Sources and Packages files as part of a repositoryGuillem Jover1-2/+2
Instead of as being of exclusive use or owned by APT, which has never been the case. Those files existed long before APT even existed.
2011-07-07dpkg-query(1): Clarify that several fields are not dselect specificGuillem Jover1-4/+4
These apply to most dpkg front-ends not just dselect.
2011-04-29man: Clarify “EXIT STATUS” sections by using bold and a tableGuillem Jover1-3/+5
Change the status codes to bold and list them with a table to makes it easier to visually distinguish them.
2011-04-21dpkg-query(1): document empty lines as separator for --status and ↵Raphaël Hertzog1-5/+10
--print-avail too
2011-04-20man: On dpkg-query -L each list of files per package is separated by blank linesGuillem Jover1-2/+3
2011-04-06dpkg-query(1): improve description of --searchLars Buitinck1-4/+4
2011-03-03dpkg-query: Document that --list and --show arguments are optionalGuillem Jover1-2/+2
Do that in the --help output and in the man page.
2011-01-16Propagate --admindir to programs run from maintainer scriptsGuillem Jover1-0/+4
Always set DPKG_ADMINDIR from dpkg so that all subprocesses inherit the variable and there's no possible security risk from a user process setting the variable to write onto a user controlled area. As usual, the order in which the admindir value is overridden is the following: built-in default, environment variable and command line option. Closes: #97076 Suggested-by: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
2010-03-07man: Document “dpkg-query -l” abbreviated state informationGuillem Jover1-0/+34
Closes: #383869 Based-on-patch-by: Marc-Jano Knopp <pub_br_debian.org@marc-jano.de>
2010-03-07man: Document the exit codes for dpkg-queryGuillem Jover1-1/+8
Closes: #571798
2010-02-25Remove --license and --licence options from toolsGuillem Jover1-3/+0
The options are pretty useless and non-standard. The user can surely cat a file from the installed package. In addition this option has not worked ever on non-Debian systems as it's relying on the GPL-2 file from the base-files Debian package. So remove it, and we get some code reduction as a nice side-effect.
2009-09-06dpkg-query: Add installed package control path query supportGuillem Jover1-1/+9
This new command is to be used in special cirmcumstances when the maintainer scripts, or external programs need to know the paths to an installed package control files, without needing to hardcode or assume any file system layout for the dpkg database.
2008-08-18man/: Use a troff special character for the copyright symbolGuillem Jover1-2/+2
2008-06-27dpkg-query(1): document the origin of fields available for --showformatRaphael Hertzog1-10/+14
2008-06-22dpkg(1), dpkg-query(1): explain that the available file is for dselectRaphael Hertzog1-1/+4
* dpkg.1, dpkg-query.1: Document the fact that the available file is mostly useful for dselect users and that the related commands are useless for APT users.
2008-06-22dpkg(1) and dpkg-query(1): clarify explanation of -l and --get-selectionsRaphael Hertzog1-1/+2
* man/dpkg.1, man/dpkg-query.1: Clarify lisf of packages displayed in dpkg --get-selections and dpkg-query -l.
2008-02-22Fix groff in some manual pagesRaphael Hertzog1-3/+0
* man/dpkg-gensymbols.1: Fix some groff errors detected by lintian. * man/dpkg-query.1: Same.
2007-11-19Get rid of undefined macros from man pagesGuillem Jover1-4/+0
Thanks to Colin Watson for the analysis.
2007-10-29Fix some quote characters in manpagesFrank Lichtenheld1-1/+1
dpkg-query.1: Replace ' with \(aq in example dpkg-source.1: Replace ' with \(aq in synopsis
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