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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=b4422f9db3533156560e0b4be592e854491b40e3 commit b4422f9db3533156560e0b4be592e854491b40e3 Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> AuthorDate: Fri Nov 19 23:45:29 2021 +0100 dpkg-query(1): Document full --search and --listfiles output format We need to mention the diversions output too and that it is localized, so that the output does not give surprises when being parsed. Prompted-by: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> --- man/dpkg-query.pod | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/dpkg-query.pod b/man/dpkg-query.pod index 3809ace09..ade71db25 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-query.pod +++ b/man/dpkg-query.pod @@ -143,6 +143,17 @@ List files installed to your system from I<package-name>. When multiple I<package-name>s are listed, the requested lists of files are separated by an empty line, with the same order as specified on the argument list. +Each file diversion is printed on its own line after its diverted file, +prefixed with one of the following localized strings: + +Z<> + locally diverted to: I<diverted-to> + package diverts others to: I<diverted-to> + diverted by I<pkg> to: I<diverted-to> + +Hint: When machine parsing the output, it is customary to set the locale to +B<C.UTF-8> to get reproducible results. + This command will not list extra files created by maintainer scripts, nor will it list alternatives. @@ -198,6 +209,21 @@ followed by the pathname. As in: pkgname1, pkgname2: pathname1 pkgname3: pathname2 +File diversions are printed with the following localized strings: + +Z<> + diversion by I<pkgname> from: I<diverted-from> + diversion by I<pkgname> to: I<diverted-to> + +or for local diversions: + +Z<> + local diversion from: I<diverted-from> + local diversion to: I<diverted-to> + +Hint: When machine parsing the output, it is customary to set the locale to +B<C.UTF-8> to get reproducible results. + =item B<-p>, B<--print-avail> [I<package-name>...] Display details about packages, as found in I<%ADMINDIR%/available>. -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
