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authorSebastian Nowicki <sebnow@gmail.com>2008-05-11 03:15:36 +0800
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-05-10 15:10:51 -0500
commite3d35b3274f13cc9ed8d79fa873d6348e424259e (patch)
treead2f83d55aeed212ede7b2ab7bfcadbae30ec753 /lib
parent27943a04d6dd135628c2313525ebffbcd76cc514 (diff)
downloadpacman-e3d35b3274f13cc9ed8d79fa873d6348e424259e.tar.xz
Add detailed description to alpm_pkg_load
It was unclear what "loading the full package" actually did. The detailed description should clear that up, without having to look at the code. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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-rw-r--r--lib/libalpm/package.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/package.c b/lib/libalpm/package.c
index 287c2ce4..794a2f7d 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/package.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/package.c
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@
*/
/** Create a package from a file.
+ * If full is false, the archive is read only until all necessary
+ * metadata is found. If it is true, the entire archive is read, which
+ * serves as a verfication of integrity and the filelist can be created.
* @param filename location of the package tarball
* @param full whether to stop the load after metadata is read or continue
* through the full archive