[pacman-dev] Pacman.conf

[Dan McGee]

if you think they aren't clear, by all means please file a bug report.
And when you mention you volunteered to help, I guess I'm not sure who
this is considering the email is from Tech Support Department, I'm not
even quite sure who I'm talking to.

-Dan

On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Tech Support Department
<tech at frontrowcomputer.com> wrote:
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>     Okay.  It was just that since I had already offered
>       to help on the various man pages and was not taken up on the
>       offer, there was no way I could help fix the poor writing in the
>       man pages, and by extension, get the information I needed myself
>       unless I went directly to the source.  I guess we users will have
>       to start a new document somewhere based upon trial and error.
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>       Thanks anyway.
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>     On 07/21/2010 10:11 AM, Dan McGee wrote:
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>       On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tech Support Department
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>         Could you please explain the following statements, which I found at
> http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html:
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> During parsing, pacman will define the $repo variable to the name of the
> current section. This is often utilized in files specified using the Include
> directive so all repositories can use the same mirrorfile. pacman also
> defines the $arch variable to the value of Architecture, so the same
> mirrorfile can even be used for different architectures.
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> The Arch Linux forums, IRC channel, or mailing lists are a much better
> venue for such questions.
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> If you would still like my private assistance, I would be glad to
> assist once we discuss payment options. My billing rate is $65/hour.
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> -Dan
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