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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2010-10-08 08:52:14 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2010-10-13 23:29:26 -0500
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downloadpacman-42893e7165e3db0bf068611d5a4164926adcf43a.tar.xz
Update documentation to reflect new epoch package variable
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ to determine which packages need upgrading. This behavior operates as follows:
1.0a < 1.0alpha < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0p < 1.0pre < 1.0rc < 1.0
Numeric:
1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < 3.0.0
++
+Additionally, packages can have an 'epoch' value defined that will override any
+version comparison and force an upgrade.
*-T, \--deptest*::
Check dependencies; this is useful in scripts such as makepkg to check