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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2008-06-19 19:28:56 -0500 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2008-06-19 19:28:56 -0500 |
| commit | 7edb2e5b0d55505b49d682f6f4c5b4b1e49c3b72 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b47e39ee9360effe3773d2a549cead7f723fa62 /doc | |
| parent | d594b6e7978d14b5ca4cd9c295fa9b829c5565bd (diff) | |
Add information on version comparison to manpages
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 8 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt index b90d67a7..0b1ce649 100644 --- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt +++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt @@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ similar to `$_basekernver`. Force the package to be upgraded by a pacman system upgrade operation, even if the version number would normally not trigger such an upgrade. This is useful when the version numbering scheme - of a package changes (or is alphanumeric). + of a package changes (or is alphanumeric). See linkman:pacman[8] for + more infomation on version comparisons. build() Function diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 5594ac61..08764dea 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -61,7 +61,13 @@ provide the same functionality as foo will be searched for. If any package is found, it will be installed. + You can also use `pacman -Su` to upgrade all packages that are out of date. See -<<SO,Sync Options>> below. +<<SO,Sync Options>> below. When upgrading, pacman performs version comparison +to determine which packages need upgrading. This behavior operates as follows: + + Alphanumeric: + 1.0 < 1.0a < 1.0alpha < 1.0b < 1.0beta < 1.0p < 1.0pre < 1.0rc + Numeric: + 1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < 3.0.0 *-U, \--upgrade*:: Upgrade or add a package to the system. Either a URL or file path can be |