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2009-01-13doc: Consistency and formatting cleanupsDan McGee1-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-08-23Cleanup of _alpm_pkg_compare_versions.Xavier Chantry1-1/+1
* Change the return values to be more informative. It was previously boolean, only indicating if a sync package was newer than a local package. Now it is a simple wrapper to vercmp, handling the force flag. * Remove the verbose output from _alpm_pkg_compare_versions. The "force" message is not so useful. The "package : local (v1) is newer than repo (v2)" message can be moved to -Su operation. For the -S operation, it is better to have something like : "downgrading package from v1 to v2" * Don't display the "up to date -- skipping" and "up to date -- reinstalling" messages, when the local version is newer than the sync one. * Fix the behavior of --needed option to not skip a target when the local version is newer, and clarify its description. * Add a new alpm_pkg_has_force function This allows us to access the pkg->force field like any other package fields. Signed-off-by: Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-07-24Fix vercmp and add additional testsDan McGee1-1/+1
This vercmp issue has been a sticking point but this should resolve many of the issues that have come up. Only a few minor code changes were necessary to get the behavior we desired, and this version appears to beat any other vercmp rendition on a few more cases added in this commit. This commit passes all 58 vercmp tests currently out there. Other 'fixes' still fail on a few tests, namely these ones: test: ver1: 1.5.a ver2: 1.5 ret: -1 expected: 1 ==> FAILURE test: ver1: 1.5 ver2: 1.5.a ret: 1 expected: -1 ==> FAILURE test: ver1: 1.5-1 ver2: 1.5.b ret: 1 expected: -1 ==> FAILURE test: ver1: 1.5.b ver2: 1.5-1 ret: -1 expected: 1 ==> FAILURE 4 of 58 tests failed Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-07-13sync_addtarget reworkNagy Gabor1-1/+3
Now '-S provision' handling is done in the back-end. In case of multiple providers, the first one is selected (behavior change: deleted provision002.py). The old processing order was: literal, group, provision; the new one: literal, provision, group. This is more rational, but "pacman -S group" will be slower now. "pacman -S repo/provision" also works. Provision was generalized to dependencies, so you can resolve deps by hand: "pacman -S 'bash>2.0'" or "pacman -S 'core/bash>2.0'" etc. This can be useful in makepkg dependency resolving. The changes were documented in pacman manual. alpm_find_pkg_satisfiers and _alpm_find_dep_satisfiers functions were removed, since they are no longer needed. I added some verbosity to "select provider instead of literal" and "fallback to group". Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-06-19Add information on version comparison to manpagesDan McGee1-1/+7
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-06-19Merge branch 'maint'Dan McGee1-0/+10
2008-06-14Document pacman -q/--quiet operationDan McGee1-0/+10
Fixes FS#10644. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-06-08Various updates needed prior to a new releaseDan McGee1-4/+3
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-03-30doc/pacman.8: fix manpage typoDan McGee1-2/+3
Fix a misspelling and make a clarification while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-03-23Add new CleanMethod option.Chantry Xavier1-0/+3
As it was already mentioned several times, the new -Sc behavior in 3.1 is great, but only when the package cache is not shared. This option has two possible values : KeepInstalled and KeepCurrent With KeepCurrent, -Sc will clean packages that are no longer available in any sync db, rather than packages that are no longer in the local db. The resulting behavior should be better for shared cache. Ref : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-February/011140.html Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-03-22Kill the dependsonly option.Chantry Xavier1-4/+0
From the man page : "This is pretty useless and we're not sure why it even exists." Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>
2008-03-10Add -Rss optionNagy Gabor1-1/+1
* -Rss removes all dependencies (including explicitly installed ones). * updated documentation * two pactest files added to test the difference between -Rs and -Rss Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
2008-03-08Remove the Add option from the command lineDan McGee1-7/+0
There is still a lot of code that could be cleaned up internally. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-02-06New remove option : -u / --unneeded (FS#6505).Nagy Gabor1-0/+5
With --unneeded option 'pacman -R' doesn't stop in case of dependency error; it removes the needed-dependency targets from the target-list instead. See also: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-October/009653.html . The patch also adds a new causingpkg field to pmdepmissing_t which indicates the to-be-removed package which would cause a dependency break. This is needed, because miss->depend.name may be a provision. miss->causingpkg will be useful in -R dependency error messages too. [Xavier: renamed inducer to causingpkg, removed the _alpm_pkgname_pkg_cmp helper function as requested by Aaron. This might be added by a further commit. Other small cleanups, updated manpage and bash completion.] Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>
2008-01-21New --asexplicit optionNagy Gabor1-1/+6
This is the symmetric of --asdeps, install packages explicitly. Documentation and completion files were updated accordingly. Added sync301.py and upgrade032.py pactest files to test this. I also made a little modification in ALLDEPS handling too. Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>
2008-01-15Another documentation update for FS#9204Chantry Xavier1-0/+3
Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-15Clarify -Sc documentation.Chantry Xavier1-8/+9
s/old packages/packages that are no longer installed/g. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-14Update cachedir documentation (FS#9204).Chantry Xavier1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-13doc: update documentation for --recursive and --cascadeChantry Xavier1-5/+7
This addresses some of the issues in FS#9192. Attempt to clarify the -Rc and -Rs options in the man page. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-10Rename -t --orphans to -t --unrequired (FS#9144).Chantry Xavier1-1/+1
It turns out the orphan name was misleading. Real orphans are packages installed as dependency no longer required by any others (-Qtd). The -t option only shows package not required by any others, so --unrequired describes it better. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-08Documentation updatesNathan Jones1-6/+19
Document the following: * -R can take a group * -S can take a group and provision I also split up the -S description into multiple paragraphs because it was getting too large. Signed-off-by: Nathan Jones <nathanj@insightbb.com> [Dan: added some feedback from the ML, rewrapped lines] Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-06Documentation updatesDan McGee1-5/+13
Update description of path specifiers for both pacman and pacman.conf in their respective manpages. Ensure it is obvious that they are absolute and not relative paths. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2008-01-05doc: remove --ask option from pacman manpageDan McGee1-6/+0
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-12-29doc: rename manlink macro to linkmanDan McGee1-5/+5
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case manlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-12-05Update pacman manpage with description of --clean optionDan McGee1-7/+12
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-12-02Add new --needed option for -S.Chantry Xavier1-0/+3
During a pacman operation such as a group install, pacman can ask several questions such as "local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway?". They are usually all answered either by yes or by no: * yes when you want to reinstall all the targets. * no when you only want to install the missing ones (either because you are installing a group, or because you are copying a pacman -S line from wiki or whatever). So instead of asking this question for each target, it is now now configured with a flag. Yes will be the default -S behavior, No will be achieved with the --needed flag. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-11-21Remove -F/--freshen operationDan McGee1-4/+0
This operation made sense in the days before sync DBs existed, but it no longer has the same usefulness it once did. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu> Signed-off-by: Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>
2007-11-13Make it easier to ignore multiple packages.Nathan Jones1-2/+4
This makes --ignore and --ignoregroup able to accept multiple packages/groups by separating each with a comma. For instance: pacman -Su --ignore kernel26,udev,glibc This was requested in the comments of FS#8054. Signed-off-by: Nathan Jones <nathanj@insightbb.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-11-13Add help for --ignoregroup.Nathan Jones1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Nathan Jones <nathanj@insightbb.com> [Dan: split usage line into two lines for clarity] Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-11-08Small manpage updatesDan McGee1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-09-27document the -Qii option.Chantry Xavier1-1/+3
I suppose -Qii could be used for other things than displaying the list of backup files, but currently, it's the only one, so that's how I documented it.. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-09-18Update NEWS, -S testing/qt example, and mirrorlist changeDan McGee1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-09-17Refine pacman manpage, clarify -S repo/package possibility, remove --testDan McGee1-4/+3
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-08-16Update manpage with new query options.Chantry Xavier1-9/+22
Dan: did a bit more updating and clarifying. Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-07-16Man page revision timeDan McGee1-73/+79
Spruce up the asciidoc formatting, fix a few issues that we had. Formatting now looks pretty good in both the manpage output and the XHTML output. Also added some options that we have changed since 3.0, and a few wording updates, etc. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-07-09Asciidoc updates- make it pretty, fix build, etc.Dan McGee1-0/+3
* Fix up the target so we rebuild the manpages when we edit the corresponding text file. * Add vim modelines to all of the asciidoc files ensureing the right syntax highlighting is used and we have expandtabs turned off. * Start making a few small changes to PKGBUILD.5 to make it pretty in both HTML and manpage format output. * Fix the manlink macro to include the manpage section in the link. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
2007-07-09Convert the remaining man pages to asciidoc.Andrew Fyfe1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Andrew Fyfe <andrew@neptune-one.net>
2007-07-09Move common stuff into footer.txt and some formating tweaks.Andrew Fyfe1-60/+49
Signed-off-by: Andrew Fyfe <andrew@neptune-one.net>
2007-07-09Add two asciidoc manpages to the doc/ dirAndrew Fyfe1-0/+302
Add the pacman.8 and pacman.conf.5 asciidoc manpages to the GIT tree, with the rest to follow. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>