[pacman-dev] [PATCH] pacman.8: document .pacorig files

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun May 12 22:25:36 EDT 2013


On 13/05/13 01:59, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
> ---
>  doc/pacman.8.txt | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
> index 189e113..c13099a 100644
> --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
> +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
> @@ -445,6 +445,10 @@ original=X, current=Y, new=Z::
>  	extension and warn the user. The user must then manually merge any
>  	necessary changes into the original file.
>  
> +original=NULL, current=Y, new=Z::
> +	Package was not previously installed.  Save the current file with
> +	a '.pacorig' extension, install the new file, and warn the user.
> +
>  

How about:

"Package was not previously installed by file present on the filesystem."

Do we need to mention it is an unonwned file?  I guess not...



>  Examples
>  --------
> 



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