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authorChantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com>2008-01-15 13:48:27 +0100
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-01-15 22:04:28 -0600
commiteb77f0dbd2e6fab521375bd2ab81b0ab4bc052aa (patch)
treea68cf94af9cec158b823321c9eb0d07e6f9b207c /doc
parent6b242b3725475da6b9d19c41f241ff8170514920 (diff)
Another documentation update for FS#9204
Signed-off-by: Chantry Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/pacman.8.txt3
-rw-r--r--doc/pacman.conf.5.txt9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
index c5b0f479..f6eb69c3 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Options
not be used as a way to install software into ``/usr/local'' instead of
``/usr''. This option is used if you want to install a package on a
temporary mounted partition which is "owned" by another system.
+ *NOTE*: If database path or logfile are not specified on either the
+ command line or in linkman:pacman.conf[5], their default location will
+ be inside this root path.
*-v, --verbose*::
Output paths such as as the Root, Conf File, DB Path, Cache Dirs, etc.
diff --git a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
index 95298633..e8f74540 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.conf.5.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Options
Set the default root directory for pacman to install to. This option is
used if you want to install a package on a temporary mounted partition
which is "owned" by another system, or for a chroot install.
+ *NOTE*: If database path or logfile are not specified on either the
+ command line or in linkman:pacman.conf[5], their default location will
+ be inside this root path.
*DBPath =* path/to/db/dir::
Overrides the default location of the toplevel database directory. A
@@ -59,9 +62,9 @@ Options
default is ``/var/cache/pacman/pkg/''. Multiple cache directories can be
specified, and they are tried in the order they are listed in the config
file. If a file is not found in any cache directory, it will be downloaded
- to the first cache directory with write access. *NOTE*: if specified, this
- is an absolute path and the root path is not automatically prepended. This
- behavior changed in pacman 3.1.0.
+ to the first cache directory with write access. *NOTE*: this is an absolute
+ path, the root path is not automatically prepended. This behavior changed
+ in pacman 3.1.0.
*LogFile =* '/path/to/file'::