Adding upstream version 2.7.12.upstream/2.7.12

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent"> %aptent;
+<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent"> %aptverbatiment;
+<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent"> %aptvendor;
+]>
+
+<refentry>
+
+ <refentryinfo>
+   &apt-author.moconnor;
+   &apt-author.team;
+   &apt-email;
+   &apt-product;
+   <!-- The last update date -->
+   <date>2018-12-11T00:00:00Z</date>
+ </refentryinfo>
+ 
+ <refmeta>
+   <refentrytitle>apt-mark</refentrytitle>
+   <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+   <refmiscinfo class="manual">APT</refmiscinfo>
+ </refmeta>
+ 
+ <!-- Man page title -->
+ <refnamediv>
+    <refname>apt-mark</refname>
+    <refpurpose>show, set and unset various settings for a package</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ &synopsis-command-apt-mark;
+
+ <refsect1><title>Description</title>
+    <para><command>apt-mark</command> can be used as a unified front-end to set
+       various settings for a package, such as marking a package as being
+       automatically/manually installed or changing <command>dpkg</command>
+       selections such as hold, install, deinstall and purge which are respected
+       e.g. by <command>apt-get dselect-upgrade</command> or <command>aptitude</command>.
+   </para>
+   </refsect1><refsect1><title>Automatically and Manually Installed Packages</title>
+   <para>
+     When you request that a package is installed, and as a result
+     other packages are installed to satisfy its dependencies, the
+     dependencies are marked as being automatically installed, while the
+     package you installed explicitly is marked as manually installed.
+     Once an automatically installed package is no longer depended on
+     by any manually installed package it is considered no longer needed
+     and e.g. <command>apt-get</command> or <command>aptitude</command>
+     will at least suggest removing them.
+   </para>
+   <variablelist>
+     <varlistentry><term><option>auto</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>auto</literal> is used to mark a
+     package as being automatically installed, which will cause the
+     package to be removed when no more manually installed packages
+     depend on this package.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>manual</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>manual</literal> is used to mark a
+     package as being manually installed, which will prevent the
+     package from being automatically removed if no other packages
+     depend on it.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>minimize-manual</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>minimize-manual</literal> is used to mark
+      (transitive) dependencies of metapackages as automatically installed.
+      This can be used after an installation for example, to minimize the
+      number of manually installed packages; or continuously on systems
+      managed by system configuration metapackages.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+       <varlistentry><term><option>showauto</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>showauto</literal> is used to print a
+     list of automatically installed packages with each package on a new line.
+     All automatically installed packages will be listed if no package is given.
+     If packages are given only those which are automatically installed will be shown.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+       <varlistentry><term><option>showmanual</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>showmanual</literal> can be used in
+     the same way as <literal>showauto</literal> except that it will print
+     a list of manually installed packages instead.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+
+   <refsect2><title>Options</title>
+     <variablelist>
+       <varlistentry>
+	 <term><option>-f=&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
+	 <term><option>--file=&synopsis-param-filename;</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para>
+	   Read/Write package stats from the filename given with the parameter
+	   &synopsis-param-filename; instead of from the default location, which
+	   is <filename>extended_states</filename> in the directory defined
+	   by the Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::State</literal>.
+	 </para></listitem>
+       </varlistentry>
+     </variablelist>
+   </refsect2>
+
+ </refsect1><refsect1><title>Prevent Changes for a Package</title>
+   <variablelist>
+     <varlistentry><term><option>hold</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>hold</literal> is used to mark a
+     package as held back, which will prevent the package from being
+     automatically installed, upgraded or removed.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>unhold</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>unhold</literal> is used to cancel a
+     previously set hold on a package to allow all actions again.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>showhold</option></term>
+	 <listitem><para><literal>showhold</literal> is used to print a list
+     of packages on hold in the same way as for the other show commands.
+       </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+ </refsect1><refsect1><title>Schedule Packages for Install, Remove and Purge</title>
+ <para>
+    Some front-ends like <command>apt-get dselect-upgrade</command> can be used to
+    apply previously scheduled changes to the install state of packages. Such changes
+    can be scheduled with the <option>install</option>, <option>remove</option>
+    (also known as <option>deinstall</option>) and <option>purge</option> commands.
+    Packages with a specific selection can be displayed with <option>showinstall</option>,
+    <option>showremove</option> and <option>showpurge</option> respectively.
+    More information about these so called dpkg selections can be found in &dpkg;.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Options</title>
+   <variablelist>
+     &apt-commonoptions;
+   </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Files</title>
+   <variablelist>
+	&file-extended_states;
+   </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>See Also</title>
+    <para><phrase>&apt-get;,&aptitude;,&apt-conf;</phrase></para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1><title>Diagnostics</title>
+   <para><command>apt-mark</command> returns zero on normal operation, non-zero on error.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ &manbugs;
+ 
+</refentry>