Closed akinomyoga closed 3 months ago
While alternatives
in Fedora produces the following output with alternatives --help
:
alternatives version 1.26 - Copyright (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License.
usage: alternatives --install <link> <name> <path> <priority>
[--initscript <service>]
[--family <family>]
[--follower <follower_link> <follower_name> <follower_path>]*
alternatives --remove <name> <path>
alternatives --auto <name>
alternatives --config <name>
alternatives --display <name>
alternatives --set <name> <path/family>
alternatives --list
alternatives --remove-all <name>
alternatives --add-follower <name> <path> <follower_link> <follower_name> <follower_path>
alternatives --remove-follower <name> <path> <follower_name>
common options: --verbose --test --help --usage --version --keep-missing --keep-foreign
--altdir <directory> --admindir <directory>
an old version of update-alternatives
(in debian12 container) seems to produce the following output
Usage: update-alternatives [<option> ...] <command>
Commands:
--install <link> <name> <path> <priority>
[--slave <link> <name> <path>] ...
add a group of alternatives to the system.
--remove <name> <path> remove <path> from the <name> group alternative.
--remove-all <name> remove <name> group from the alternatives system.
--auto <name> switch the master link <name> to automatic mode.
--display <name> display information about the <name> group.
--query <name> machine parseable version of --display <name>.
--list <name> display all targets of the <name> group.
--get-selections list master alternative names and their status.
--set-selections read alternative status from standard input.
--config <name> show alternatives for the <name> group and ask the
user to select which one to use.
--set <name> <path> set <path> as alternative for <name>.
--all call --config on all alternatives.
<link> is the symlink pointing to /etc/alternatives/<name>.
(e.g. /usr/bin/pager)
<name> is the master name for this link group.
(e.g. pager)
<path> is the location of one of the alternative target files.
(e.g. /usr/bin/less)
<priority> is an integer; options with higher numbers have higher priority in
automatic mode.
Options:
--altdir <directory> change the alternatives directory.
--admindir <directory> change the administrative directory.
--log <file> change the log file.
--force allow replacing files with alternative links.
--skip-auto skip prompt for alternatives correctly configured
in automatic mode (relevant for --config only)
--quiet quiet operation, minimal output.
--verbose verbose operation, more output.
--debug debug output, way more output.
--help show this help message.
--version show the version."
I adjusted the PR to support both types.
Fixes #1225