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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-01-18 19:33:25 -0600
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2008-01-18 19:33:25 -0600
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@@ -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'::