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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-01-07 20:59:51 -0600 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-01-22 10:02:15 -0600 |
| commit | 01403f423a9bace8b43d45a0dfcea5d4f1002cc8 (patch) | |
| tree | c608878e84c995bda130cd365a45d1e0bd9b55cb /doc/pacman.8.txt | |
| parent | b8ab96a270caa5d589c44c62d5664db156d94af7 (diff) | |
| download | pacman-01403f423a9bace8b43d45a0dfcea5d4f1002cc8.tar.xz | |
doc: add a vercmp manpage
This includes info on version comparison that is very similar to the stuff
in the pacman manpage, but also a few vercmp examples, the return values,
and other fun stuff.
Also update the version comparison stuff in the pacman manpage.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/pacman.8.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 2b47a88c..8f91e408 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ to determine which packages need upgrading. This behavior operates as follows: 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. +Additionally, version strings can have an 'epoch' value defined that will +overrule any version comparison (unless the epoch values are equal). This is +specified in an `epoch:version-rel` format. For example, `2:1.0-1` is always +greater than `1:3.6-1`. *-T, \--deptest*:: Check dependencies; this is useful in scripts such as makepkg to check |