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diff --git a/doc/repo-add.8.txt b/doc/repo-add.8.txt index e51fadf6..d44a8a7e 100644 --- a/doc/repo-add.8.txt +++ b/doc/repo-add.8.txt @@ -82,6 +82,19 @@ repo-add Options Remove old package files from the disk when updating their entry in the database. +Example +------- + +'repo-add' is often invoked twice to create two separate databases; a smaller +database used by pacman and a large database containing package file lists for +use by other utilities. + +'repo-add' foo.db.tar.xz <pkg1> [<pkg2> ...] +'repo-add' -f foo.files.tar.xz <pkg1> [<pkg2> ...] + +While pacman can use the large database (if given a db.tar* extension), there +is currently no additional benefit for the larger download. + See Also -------- linkman:makepkg[8], linkman:pacman[8], linkman:pkgdelta[8] |