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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-07-14 14:58:46 -0500 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-07-14 14:58:46 -0500 |
| commit | 36e48573ceee0f707de0dcc55d1da442d949d3dc (patch) | |
| tree | 13414158aeb43ff5ab5ee7b09f0ae17a7a9f7b9f /doc | |
| parent | 00628c7268e3b81045961be51a0ca640aea368b0 (diff) | |
Add 'compress' compression format as an available option
This adds the '.tar.Z' option to both repo-add and makepkg for no other
reason than "why not", and because bsdtar supports it natively with the
'-Z' flag. Also update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.conf.5.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/repo-add.8.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt index aa0174cb..dce9b592 100644 --- a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt +++ b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt @@ -215,7 +215,8 @@ Options **PKGEXT=**".pkg.tar.gz", **SRCEXT=**".src.tar.gz":: Sets the compression used when making compiled or source packages. The - current valid suffixes are `.tar`, `.tar.gz`, `.tar,bz2` and `.tar.xz`. + current valid suffixes are `.tar`, `.tar.gz`, `.tar,bz2`, `.tar.xz`, and + `.tar.Z`. Do not touch these unless you know what you are doing. See Also diff --git a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt index bdf0bc83..a28e00f2 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt @@ -225,11 +225,12 @@ directory with these packages so pacman can find it when run with '\--refresh'. The above command will generate a compressed database named '/home/pkgs/custom.db.tar.gz'. Note that the database must be of the form -'\{treename\}.db.tar.gz', where '\{treename\}' is the name of the section defined in -the configuration file. That's it! Now configure your custom section in the -configuration file as shown in the config example above. Pacman will now use your -package repository. If you add new packages to the repository, remember to -re-generate the database and use pacman's '\--refresh' option. +'\{treename\}.db.tar.{ext}', where '\{treename\}' is the name of the section +defined in the configuration file and '\{ext\}' is a valid compression type as +documented in linkman:repo-add[8]. That's it! Now configure your custom section +in the configuration file as shown in the config example above. Pacman will now +use your package repository. If you add new packages to the repository, +remember to re-generate the database and use pacman's '\--refresh' option. For more information on the repo-add command, see ``repo-add \--help'' or linkman:repo-add[8]. diff --git a/doc/repo-add.8.txt b/doc/repo-add.8.txt index 2de5be8f..e03384fd 100644 --- a/doc/repo-add.8.txt +++ b/doc/repo-add.8.txt @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ can be specified on the command line. A package database is a tar file, optionally compressed. Valid extensions are ``.db'' or ``.files'' followed by an archive extension of ``.tar'', -``.tar.gz'', ``.tar.bz2'', or ``.tar.xz''. The file does not need to exist, but -all parent directories must exist. +``.tar.gz'', ``.tar.bz2'', ``.tar.xz'', or ``.tar.Z''. The file does not need +to exist, but all parent directories must exist. Common Options |