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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-08-11 08:55:12 -0500 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-08-11 11:29:46 -0500 |
| commit | 857357f9405b6c07236550b7ec1558ed1b116c6b (patch) | |
| tree | eed73d231ff22568023bf3e1e8be3096dfc87ec2 /doc | |
| parent | f3fa77bcf1d792971c314f8c0de255866e89f3f3 (diff) | |
| download | pacman-857357f9405b6c07236550b7ec1558ed1b116c6b.tar.xz | |
Allow --needed and --recursive on -U operations
Trivial to implement as the same backend machinery is used anyway.
Document it and add it to the accepted options.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index a362d2cf..10368df4 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -229,6 +229,17 @@ Upgrade Options (apply to '-S' and '-U')[[UO]] there is one available. Multiple groups can be specified by separating them with a comma. +*\--needed*:: + Do not reinstall the targets that are already up to date. + +*\--recursive*:: + Recursively reinstall all dependencies of the targets. This forces upgrades + or reinstalls of all dependencies without requiring explicit version + requirements. This is most useful in combination with the '\--needed' flag, + which will induce a deep dependency upgrade without any unnecessary + reinstalls. + + Query Options[[QO]] ------------------- *-c, \--changelog*:: @@ -398,7 +409,7 @@ system upgrade and install/upgrade the foo package in the same operation. to date. *\--needed*:: - Don't reinstall the targets that are already up to date. + Do not reinstall the targets that are already up to date. *\--recursive*:: Recursively reinstall all dependencies of the targets. This forces upgrades |