[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Document "pacman -S 'foo>=1.0'"

Nagy Gabor ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu
Sat Jul 5 08:08:23 EDT 2008


From 4a3d961fa1c8cdb4f841940e36fd8ed8a34482c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 13:58:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document "pacman -S 'foo>=1.0'"

Signed-off-by: Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
---
 doc/pacman.8.txt |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
index 5594ac6..0fbabc7 100644
--- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
+++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ Operations
 	example, `pacman -S qt` will download and install qt and all the
 	packages it depends on. If a package name exists in more than one repo, the
 	repo can be explicitly specified to clarify the package to install:
-	`pacman -S testing/qt`.
+	`pacman -S testing/qt`. You can also specify version requirement:
+	`pacman -S "bash>=3.2"` (Quotes are needed, otherwise your shell
+	interprets ">" as redirection to file.)
 +
 In addition to packages, groups can be specified as well. For example, if
 gnome is a defined package group, then `pacman -S gnome` will install every
-- 
1.5.6.1





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