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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-07-14 14:58:46 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-07-14 14:58:46 -0500
commit36e48573ceee0f707de0dcc55d1da442d949d3dc (patch)
tree13414158aeb43ff5ab5ee7b09f0ae17a7a9f7b9f /doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
parent00628c7268e3b81045961be51a0ca640aea368b0 (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>
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diff --git a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
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@@ -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].