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authorJason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu>2014-08-07 00:43:18 -0400
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2014-08-09 14:08:41 +1000
commitdb14815f463c5128a2fc25df8d7570293987e18f (patch)
tree941fb1fb16e845661af4f5326c42845ed89343e1 /doc
parent99a5017f5591d17784ac2456b1401628f2749eea (diff)
downloadpacman-db14815f463c5128a2fc25df8d7570293987e18f.tar.xz
pacman(8): Improve grammar and quoting
Notable changes: * Add double quotes around printf-like formatting options for "--print-format" * Add a missing backslash in '--force' Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
index ccc0a016..87891401 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Options
Specify an alternative database location (a typical default is
+{localstatedir}/lib/pacman+). This should not be used unless you know what
you are doing.
- *NOTE*: if specified, this is an absolute path, and the root path is
+ *NOTE*: If specified, this is an absolute path, and the root path is
not automatically prepended.
*-r, \--root* <path>::
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ Transaction Options (apply to '-S', '-R' and '-U')
*\--print-format* <format>::
Specify a printf-like format to control the output of the '\--print'
- operation. The possible attributes are: %n for pkgname, %v for pkgver,
- %l for location, %r for repo, and %s for size. Implies '\--print'.
+ operation. The possible attributes are: "%n" for pkgname, "%v" for pkgver,
+ "%l" for location, "%r" for repository, and "%s" for size. Implies '\--print'.
Upgrade Options (apply to '-S' and '-U')[[UO]]
--------------------------------------------
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ Upgrade Options (apply to '-S' and '-U')[[UO]]
Bypass file conflict checks and overwrite conflicting files. If the
package that is about to be installed contains files that are already
installed, this option will cause all those files to be overwritten.
- Using '--force' will not allow overwriting a directory with a file or
+ Using '\--force' will not allow overwriting a directory with a file or
installing packages with conflicting files and directories.
This option should be used with care, ideally not at all.
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ select sync packages whose versions do not match with the local versions. This
can be useful when the user switches from a testing repository to a stable one.
+
Additional targets can also be specified manually, so that '-Su foo' will do a
-system upgrade and install/upgrade the foo package in the same operation.
+system upgrade and install/upgrade the "foo" package in the same operation.
*-w, \--downloadonly*::
Retrieve all packages from the server, but do not install/upgrade anything.