[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] pacman.8: Consistently refer to the package database

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 03:37:59 UTC 2015


On Aug 7, 2015 8:48 PM, "Allan McRae" <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> We use "package database" everywhere apart from in the description of
"-y".
>
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>  doc/pacman.8.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt
> index 5c57450..d9fa705 100644
> --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt
> +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt
> @@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ system upgrade and install/upgrade the "foo" package
in the same operation.
>         Retrieve all packages from the server, but do not install/upgrade
anything.
>
>  *-y, \--refresh*::
> -       Download a fresh copy of the master package list from the
server(s)
> +       Download a fresh copy of the master package database from the
server(s)
>         defined in linkman:pacman.conf[5]. This should typically be used
each time
>         you use '\--sysupgrade' or '-u'. Passing two '\--refresh' or '-y'
flags
>         will force a refresh of all package lists, even if they appear to
be up-


Shouldn't  the "package lists" in the last line be replaced by "package
databases"?


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