Bug#123642: apt-cache add description unclear
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
I couldn't tell what apt-cache add does or what its arguments should be
from the man page. The command summary gives its arguments as "file ..."
while the description refers to the names package index files.
Does this mean the file argument should be an index file? or that it
is generated from the list of files given?
If I had an intimate knowledge of apt this would probably be clear, but
it would be nice if it were clear without it.
FYI this came up because I had downloaded a bunch of debs and wanted to
make them known to apt. I was wondering how to do this, e.g.
apt-cache add some.deb.
I ended up just doing dpkg -i. I also looked at apt-move, but again
wasn't sure what the right move was.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wheat 2.4.12 #1 Mon Oct 29 18:13:57 PST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
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