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authorDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-08-18 00:40:28 -0500
committerDan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>2011-08-18 10:47:41 -0500
commit2a466c2abc94ce835efac94510659af006bd4330 (patch)
treec56110a6451b3caf678e0977525bbcc873788755 /doc
parent6cfc4757b98e813428d261dbc185e20618ca83a6 (diff)
doc/PKGBUILD: update regarding versioned package fields
Add the info that versioned replaces are now supported, as well as beefing up some of the other places touching on versioned fields. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt21
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index 17d0b476..60d8e53b 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -178,18 +178,19 @@ disables auto detection.
*conflicts (array)*::
An array of packages that will conflict with this package (i.e. they
cannot both be installed at the same time). This directive follows the
- same format as depends. Versioned conflicts are also supported.
+ same format as depends. Versioned conflicts are supported using the
+ operators as described in `depends`.
*provides (array)*::
An array of ``virtual provisions'' this package provides. This allows
a package to provide dependencies other than its own package name. For
example, the dcron package can provide 'cron', which allows packages to
depend on 'cron' rather than 'dcron OR fcron'.
- Versioned provisions are also possible, in the 'name=version' format.
- For example, dcron can provide 'cron=2.0' to satisfy the 'cron>=2.0'
- dependency of other packages. Provisions involving the `>` and `<`
- operators are invalid as only specific versions of a package may be
- provided.
++
+Versioned provisions are also possible, in the 'name=version' format. For
+example, dcron can provide 'cron=2.0' to satisfy the 'cron>=2.0' dependency of
+other packages. Provisions involving the `>` and `<` operators are invalid as
+only specific versions of a package may be provided.
+
If the provision name appears to be a library (ends with .so), makepkg will
try to find the library in the built package and append the correct
@@ -199,9 +200,11 @@ version. Appending the version yourself disables auto detection.
An array of packages this package should replace. This can be used
to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the 'j2re' package
is renamed to 'jre', this directive allows future upgrades to continue
- as expected even though the package has moved. Sysupgrade is currently
- the only pacman operation that utilizes this field, a normal sync will
- not use its value.
+ as expected even though the package has moved. Versioned replaces are
+ supported using the operators as described in `depends`.
++
+Sysupgrade is currently the only pacman operation that utilizes this field.
+A normal sync or upgrade will not use its value.
*options (array)*::
This array allows you to override some of makepkg's default behavior