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| author | Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org> | 2009-07-07 17:48:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org> | 2009-07-07 17:48:11 +0200 |
| commit | 7e74e44467aae853e737f23b67c24835b787f813 (patch) | |
| tree | c2c315e51efe66979a80061f38b49a2d1d95d549 /man/7/pkg.pod | |
| parent | 7441119a2ab54117549b69cb3f3e3d39333600af (diff) | |
pkg(7): Documented the provides/ support
Diffstat (limited to 'man/7/pkg.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/7/pkg.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/7/pkg.pod b/man/7/pkg.pod index af4882e..5c36bff 100644 --- a/man/7/pkg.pod +++ b/man/7/pkg.pod @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ recommended to postfix each file with .pod =item provides/ -Files for inclusion into other packages +Files for inclusion into other packages. See L</"PROVIDES"> =item description @@ -184,6 +184,14 @@ these parameters and wait for confirmation. It will also offer to install packages marked by B<depend package> or B<recommend package>. +=head1 PROVIDES + +The F<provides> directory contains subdirectories with the names of the package +for which stuff is provided. Every time a package with a provides directory is +added, updated or removed, for each of the directories in F<provides/>, the +respective package's post-update hook is exectued. It is the responsibility +of that hook to do something useful with the data in F<provides/>. + =head1 HOOKS Hooks are little zsh snippets residing in $PKG_DIR/hooks |