[pacman-dev] [PATCH 4/9] repo-add.8.txt: document valid DB file extensions

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Wed Jun 22 21:00:54 EDT 2011


Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>
---
 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..36855af 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 tar file, optionally compressed. Valid extensions are:
+``.db.tar'', ``.db.tar.gz'', ``.db.tar.bz2'', or ``.db.tar.xz''. The file does
+not need to exist, but all parent directories must exist.
+
 
 Common Options
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-- 
1.7.5.4



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