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2015-09-07pacman.8: Consistently refer to the package databaseAllan McRae
We use "package database" everywhere apart from in the description of "-y". Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2015-01-21remove support for .pacorig filesAndrew Gregory
Leave user files in place and save new config files with a .pacnew extension. This reduces the complexity of file extraction and respects the principle that pacman shouldn't modify files it didn't create. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
2015-01-02Document database checking optionsAllan McRae
The required adding a Database Option section to the pacman man page and adding more complete documentation for --asdeps and --asexplicit as well. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2014-10-13pacman: add --confirm optionAndrew Gregory
--confirm cancels the effect of a previous --noconfirm. This makes it easier for scripts to default to --noconfirm but allow users to override it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2014-10-10There are not hooks!Allan McRae
Refer to install scripts as scripts and not hooks. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2014-09-30Add --assume-installed optionFlorian Pritz
This allows to ignore specific dependencies. Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind@xinu.at>
2014-08-09man: Use uniform line spacing between sectionsJason St. John
Remove blank lines immediately following section headings. Ensure two blank lines before the start of a new section. Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2014-08-09pacman(8): Improve grammar and quotingJason St. John
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>
2013-10-14imply --print from --print-formatAndrew Gregory
--print-format is totally useless without --print. Implying --print will also save us the hassle of checking it when we add transaction option validation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-06-26Make --unrequired filter packages that are optdep as wellOlivier Brunel
Specify it twice to only filter direct dependencies. Signed-off-by: Olivier Brunel <i.am.jack.mail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-05-30Revise pacman(8)Jason St. John
Resolve several grammatical errors and minor formatting consistency issues in pacman(8). Generalize the "FTP servers" and package file extension information. Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-05-29pacman.8: document .pacorig filesAndrew Gregory
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-03-30Document -QkkAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-03-07update documentation and config filesSimon Gomizelj
Signed-off-by: Simon Gomizelj <simongmzlj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-02-24Perform limited conflict checking with --forceAllan McRae
Pacman currently bails when trying to extract a file over a directory when using --force. Instead of ignoring all conflict, perform the check and skip any file-file conflicts. Conflicts between directories and files are still flagged and cause the transation to abort. As a bonus, we now know about files changing packages when using --force, so we can skip removing them fixing upgrade046. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2013-02-07document that stdin must not be a tty to read from itAndrew Gregory
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2012-11-27pacman: add -n/--native filter to -QSimon Gomizelj
Signed-off-by: Simon Gomizelj <simongmzlj@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2012-09-18Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
2012-09-18pacman.8: remove redundant sectionAllan McRae
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2012-05-20Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
Conflicts: scripts/pacman-key.sh.in
2012-05-20pacman: support group selection delimited by commasDave Reisner
We support multiple arguments being comma separated elsewhere, so this seems like a natural extension to support in our multiparse selection code. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2012-05-04doc: remove --recursive documentation for non-remove operationsDan McGee
This documentation was added in commit 857357f9 so was not caught in the removal of this option in commit 85712814. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2012-02-20Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
Conflicts: contrib/pacsysclean.in src/pacman/conf.h
2012-02-15Revert "Add -S --recursive operation"Dan McGee
This reverts commit f3fa77bcf1d792971c314f8c0de255866e89f3f3 along with making other necessary changes to fully back this (mis)feature out until we can do it correctly. The quick summary here is this was not implemented correctly; provides are not fully taken into account in this logic, and making that happen exposes a lot of other flaws in this code that are covered up later on in the dependency resolving process by several other pieces of convoluted and conditional logic. Tests have been adjusted accordingly. Some test EXISTS conditions have been removed as we already know the package is installed locally, and we also are checking the VERSION condition anyway. With these two related revert commits, we do have some changes in test pass/fail results: * upgrade078.py: does not pass, this is due to --recursive getting removed for -U/-S operations after this commit. * sync302.py: the version checks have been disabled, so this test continues to pass but has been scaled back in scope. * sync303.py: now passes, was failing before. * sync304.py: still failing, was failing before. * sync305.py: now passes, was failing before. * sync306.py: still passes, was passing before. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2012-01-23Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
Conflicts: lib/libalpm/diskspace.c src/pacman/util.h
2012-01-18Don't remove unknown files in cache cleaning codeDan McGee
This removes the hack I added to skip '*.sig' files earlier since there are other files that also fall into the same bucket- source packages from `makepkg --source`, delta files, etc. Rather than prompting for each and every one, simply skip them. Doing '-Scc' rather than '-Sc' will delete these files if that is really what you want to do. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-10-14Remove -f short option for --forceDan McGee
This is not something that should be used on a frequent basis, and giving it a short option encourages use without making the drawbacks obvious. For the 1% of situations that require it, the 5 extra keystrokes are a fair price to pay. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-08-23vercmp: ensure 2.0a and 2.0.a do not compare equalDan McGee
We had this interesting set of facts conundrum, according to vercmp return values: 2.0a < 2.0 2.0 < 2.0.a 2.0a == 2.0.a This introduces a code change that ensures '2.0a < 2.0.a' as would be expected by the first two comparisons. Unfortunately this stays us a bit further from upstream RPM code, but those are the breaks (in RPM, the versions involving 'a' do in fact compare the same, but they are both greater than the bare '2.0'). Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-08-11pacman: remove --dbonly shortoptDave Reisner
This is somewhat of a dangerous option with limited use cases. Don't advertise it as an easily accessibly option. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-08-11Allow --needed and --recursive on -U operationsDan McGee
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>
2011-08-11Add -S --recursive operationDan McGee
This closely matches what we had before for -R --recursive. Basically, when specifying a target (e.g., pacman), we can now recursively pull all dependencies, regardless of version specifiers and whether they are already satisfied in the local database. This could be used to update pacman on a system with an old glibc, for example, as both pacman and glibc would get pulled into the transaction. This is most useful with --needed to prevent needless reinstalls as described in the man page changes. The end goal of this change is to wire it into SyncFirst and have it be the default mode of operation there, but that belongs in a separate changeset. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-07-28Unify modelines in Asciidoc filesDan McGee
This gets us close to using the same modeline in all files we run through Asciidoc, as well as adding the spell and spelllang declarations, just as we had in NEWS already. The choice of 'en_us' is mainly for consistency and because the body of work already uses these spellings. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-06-24Document group and providers selectionAllan McRae
The format required for selection of packages within the group selection dialog is not entirely obvious, so provide some documentation. Fixes FS#24134. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2011-06-01Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
2011-06-01Update pacman manpage and pacman.conf for gpgdirPang Yan Han
pacman.8.txt --gpgdir section is updated based on the pacman.conf manpage pacman.conf is updated to include the default GPGDir Signed-off-by: Pang Yan Han <pangyanhan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-06-01doc: fix attribute substitution in monospaced textDan McGee
When I switched all paths to use `` formatting, I didn't realize substitution didn't work in these quote marks. Use ++ instead to ensure attributes are substituted where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-04-29Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
2011-04-29pacman(8): grammar correction for relative clausesMatt Mooney
Change "which" to "that" when used in a restrictive clause. Replace usage of the relative prounoun "those" with a common noun for added clarity. Signed-off-by: Matt Mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-04-29pacman(8): change "options" to "operation" when referring to -DMatt Mooney
-D is an operation not an option. Signed-off-by: Matt Mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
2011-04-22Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee
2011-04-20doc/pacman: split -Su description in 3 paragraphsXavier Chantry
One paragraph for -Suu and one for -Su foo. Fixes FS#23451. Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-03-23Let pacman specify GnuPG's home directory.Chris Brannon
GnuPG looks for configuration files and keyrings in its home directory. For a user, that is typically ~/.gnupg. This patch causes pacman to use /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ as the default GnuPG home. One may override the default using --gpgdir on the command-line or GPGDir in pacman's configuration file. Signed-off-by: Chris Brannon <cmbrannon@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-03-23Documentation consistency fixesDan McGee
Fix the way we were referring to paths (use ``), .pac* extensions (use ''), and other general things across our main manpages. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-03-16pacman.8: (re)document behavior of reading from stdinDave Reisner
Change the term 'packages' to 'targets' in the synopsis as well, since command line parameters could just as well be groups, repos, or URLs. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-02-28A couple of minor manpage adjustmentsJakob Gruber
Signed-off-by: Jakob Gruber <jakob.gruber@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-01-31make -d less strict; add -dd optionFlorian Pritz
-d skips checking the version of a dependency. -dd skips the whole dependency check. Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <bluewind@server-speed.net> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2011-01-22doc: add a vercmp manpageDan McGee
This includes info on version comparison that is very similar to the stuff in the pacman manpage, but also a few vercmp examples, the return values, and other fun stuff. Also update the version comparison stuff in the pacman manpage. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-12alpm/remove.c : respect --dbonly during remove-upgradeXavier Chantry
When a -Sk or -Uk operation induced a removal of an existing local package, --dbonly was not in effect and the files were all removed. Fixing this behavior was already marked as TODO in database012 pactest ------------ TODO: I honestly think the above should NOT delete the original les, it hould upgrade the DB entry without touching anything on the file stem. E.g. this test should be the same as: pacman -R --dbonly dummy && pacman -U --dbonly dummy.pkg.tar.gz ------------ Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> [Dan: small coding style touchup] Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-12-12CLI args: update --help and manpageXavier Chantry
The three parts (help, manpage and code) are now organized in the same way and much easier to compare : - specific options - install/upgrade options for -S and -U - transaction options for -S -R and -U - global options After this re-organization, it was easy to update and sync the three components together. Duplication is also avoided. Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2010-10-13Update documentation to reflect new epoch package variableDan McGee
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>