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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-01-22 17:03:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2011-01-22 17:03:51 +0100 |
| commit | 51175f31c4aac9df6ceeffc7855a0f842c580fdb (patch) | |
| tree | 4fe5405a24aa967572f407dafbbee9231a25b0dc /doc/pacman.8.txt | |
| parent | e277e838d798c1463ae5df98dcf637df70e048ec (diff) | |
| parent | 859bdb5b1d1b9ccb781c95026836283a005a96ce (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'epoch-work'
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diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index 2b47a88c..8f91e408 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -80,8 +80,10 @@ to determine which packages need upgrading. This behavior operates as follows: Numeric: 1 < 1.0 < 1.1 < 1.1.1 < 1.2 < 2.0 < 3.0.0 + -Additionally, packages can have an 'epoch' value defined that will override any -version comparison and force an upgrade. +Additionally, version strings can have an 'epoch' value defined that will +overrule any version comparison (unless the epoch values are equal). This is +specified in an `epoch:version-rel` format. For example, `2:1.0-1` is always +greater than `1:3.6-1`. *-T, \--deptest*:: Check dependencies; this is useful in scripts such as makepkg to check |