[pacman-dev] [PATCH] repo-add.8.txt: document valid DB file extensions

[Eric Bélanger]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>
> ---
> This isn't documented anywhere except in the code, and every few months when I
> end up having to test something that requires my own repo, it takes me 10
> minutes to figure out wtf a valid file extension is.
>
> d
>
>  doc/repo-add.8.txt |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/repo-add.8.txt b/doc/repo-add.8.txt
> index 0196882..c4f42a2 100644
> --- a/doc/repo-add.8.txt
> +++ b/doc/repo-add.8.txt
> @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ command line.
>  delta specified on the command line. Multiple packages and/or delta to remove
>  can be specified on the command line.
>
> +A package database is a path a compressed tar file with one of the extensions:
> +``.tar'', ``.tar.gz'', ``.tar.bz2'', or ``.tar.xz''.

I am not a native English speaker but this sentence looks awkward.  It
seems like a word (or verb?) is missing in the "a path a compressed
tar file" part.



 The file does not need to
> +exist, but all parent directories must exist.
> +
>
>  Common Options
>  --------------
> --
> 1.7.5.4
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