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authorDaniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>2009-07-07 14:43:40 +0200
committerDaniel Friesel <derf@derf.homelinux.org>2009-07-07 14:43:40 +0200
commit211ebd971000ac308aafaec450d6fd08f2c03762 (patch)
treeb50414ca45d1297b3e5832b95f7717cf5bc4d72e /man
parentbed8857b779b9896f6a3b54336feddb41c0a5b5a (diff)
Fixed some typos, outdated stuff etc. in pkg(7)
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/7/pkg.pod21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/7/pkg.pod b/man/7/pkg.pod
index c9163d7..b0d2733 100644
--- a/man/7/pkg.pod
+++ b/man/7/pkg.pod
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ you could, if you wanted to)
=head1 THE BASICS
-pkg requires two directories in you home directory. B<~/bin> contains
+pkg requires two directories in your home directory. B<~/bin> contains
symlinks to the executables shipped with your packages, and $PKG_DIR
(B<~/packages> by default) contains the
packages themselves. B<~/bin> may also contain normal executables; pkg will
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ location on the package root host.
=head1 THE PACKAGE LIST
-Thi package list lives in the files B<.list> and B<.list-remote> mentioned
+The package list lives in the files B<.list> and B<.list-remote> mentioned
above. It's used to decide whether a package needs to be pulled / pushed.
Also, the 'pkg add' completion relies on .list-remote, and back in the days when
pkg supported more than one DVCS, it was used to determine which DVCS to use
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ files and directories described below in it.
Special (as in, mostly handled by pkg) directories and files in a package.
-Unless marked with [*], all files and directories are optional
+Note that all files and directories mentioned here are optional.
=over
@@ -116,7 +116,8 @@ Sym- and hardlink descriptions. See checklinks(1)
=item Makefile
-If a Makefile is available, C<make> will be executed
+If a Makefile is available, C<make> will be executed every time the package
+is updated (pkg add/push/pull/refresh)
=item prereqs
@@ -179,13 +180,13 @@ Additionally, the string parameters B<warn> and B<info> can be used to store
messages.
After executing the prereqs script, pkg will print the content of
-these parameters; in case of B<warn>, it will also wait for confirmation.
+these parameters and wait for confirmation.
It will also offer to install packages marked by B<depend package> or
B<recommend package>.
=head1 HOOKS
-Hooks are little zsh-snippets residing in $PKG_DIR/hooks
+Hooks are little zsh snippets residing in $PKG_DIR/hooks
which are sourced from within pkg whenever needed.
Currently, the following hooks exist:
@@ -198,13 +199,13 @@ Sourced after a package was installed (e.g. with pkg add/pkg install)
=item post-update
-Sourced after a package was updated (pkg upgrade/pkg pull).
+Sourced after a package was updated (pkg pkg pull).
It is also sourced when adding a package (after post-add) and
when calling pkg refresh.
=item pre-remove
-Sourced before a package is removed (pkg remove/pkg delete)
+Sourced before a package is removed (pkg remove)
=back
@@ -217,7 +218,7 @@ by pkg. However, this one does not contain symlinks.
Currently, it only contains the directory F<man/>, which holds the "compiled"
manual pages from the packages (extracted from F<bin/> and F<man/>).
-This way, yuo can put F<.../.collected/man> into you MANPATH to access manuals
+This way, you can put F<.../.collected/man> into you MANPATH to access manuals
provided by packages.
=head1 GIT
@@ -225,7 +226,7 @@ provided by packages.
B<pkg> uses git(1) as backend for storing and syncing package information.
It is not recommended to use branches other than "master".
While they should work if GIT_USE_ORIGIN is set to 1 (the default), they will
-most likely confuse pkg update.
+most likely confuse pkg.
=head1 AUTHOR