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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2018-07-19 12:51:07 +1000 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2018-07-25 09:50:26 +1000 |
| commit | 0adb36346c18ab316f86f2ba52729257ac63284d (patch) | |
| tree | 88e2d6223781c0c8c1ce90e231c03969970f0a2c /doc/pacman.8.asciidoc | |
| parent | acef70c1036e3234fe07f2dd1d105f0f59480baa (diff) | |
| download | pacman-0adb36346c18ab316f86f2ba52729257ac63284d.tar.xz | |
Revert "Deprecate --root in favour of --sysroot"
The use of --sysroot in the real world has flagged some issues that need
addressing. Undeprecate --root for now.
This reverts commit a278356f75866f89232e3e6230bbf9fb2dc1893c.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/pacman.8.asciidoc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.asciidoc | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.asciidoc b/doc/pacman.8.asciidoc index b6f4dd76..66483bcb 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.asciidoc +++ b/doc/pacman.8.asciidoc @@ -130,6 +130,16 @@ Options *NOTE*: If specified, this is an absolute path, and the root path is not automatically prepended. +*-r, \--root* <path>:: + Specify an alternative installation root (default is `/`). This should + not be used as a way to install software into `/usr/local` instead of + `/usr`. + *NOTE*: If database path or log file are not specified on either the + command line or in linkman:pacman.conf[5], their default location will + be inside this root path. + *NOTE*: This option is not suitable for performing operations on a mounted + guest system. See '\--sysroot' instead. + *-v, \--verbose*:: Output paths such as as the Root, Conf File, DB Path, Cache Dirs, etc. |