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| author | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2013-10-15 22:20:43 +1000 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2013-10-31 16:20:02 +1000 |
| commit | d4ba5bdda6595db83babbac1c59fac129fcaff24 (patch) | |
| tree | 6dc8412ed470c8f1a3c6912a1f0fa8d0fad2f03d /doc | |
| parent | d63313efe1502f97757028f55876f8accd9d9fe2 (diff) | |
repo-add.8: Provide example usage
Detail the current standard of generating two databases - with and
without the file list.
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/repo-add.8.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/repo-add.8.txt b/doc/repo-add.8.txt index e51fadf6..d44a8a7e 100644 --- a/doc/repo-add.8.txt +++ b/doc/repo-add.8.txt @@ -82,6 +82,19 @@ repo-add Options Remove old package files from the disk when updating their entry in the database. +Example +------- + +'repo-add' is often invoked twice to create two separate databases; a smaller +database used by pacman and a large database containing package file lists for +use by other utilities. + +'repo-add' foo.db.tar.xz <pkg1> [<pkg2> ...] +'repo-add' -f foo.files.tar.xz <pkg1> [<pkg2> ...] + +While pacman can use the large database (if given a db.tar* extension), there +is currently no additional benefit for the larger download. + See Also -------- linkman:makepkg[8], linkman:pacman[8], linkman:pkgdelta[8] |