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authorTravis Willard <travis@archlinux.org>2008-01-14 19:42:15 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-01-14 22:12:01 -0600
commit9a18e0dbefd010f4505433cbf7a4d6bb40c548da (patch)
treef422f16cb337995708e9f3484bfd8ed9dd917cf9 /etc
parent0c5b68877b107f4844f29eb77a9ea5bf7b73fe01 (diff)
Clean up pacman.conf.in
This patch cleans up the Arch-specific pacman.conf (to be provided in the pacman Archlinux package) in an attempt to reduce the number of PEBKAC errors seen enabling default-disabled repos. Signed-off-by: Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
-rw-r--r--etc/pacman.conf.in16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/pacman.conf.in b/etc/pacman.conf.in
index a072db13..26cb3399 100644
--- a/etc/pacman.conf.in
+++ b/etc/pacman.conf.in
@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@ HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
#
+# Repository entries are of the format:
+# [repo-name]
+# Server = ServerName
+# Include = IncludePath
+#
+# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
+# uncommented to enable the repo.
+#
+
+# Testing is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
+# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
+# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = @sysconfdir@/pacman.d/mirrorlist
@@ -39,8 +51,10 @@ Include = @sysconfdir@/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = @sysconfdir@/pacman.d/mirrorlist
+# Unstable is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
+# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
+# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[unstable]
-# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
#Include = @sysconfdir@/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for