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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 |