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| author | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-11-20 10:05:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2010-11-20 10:05:06 +0000 |
| commit | 652cbf04211ee24c295b4c27b53e24a6a72d05bc (patch) | |
| tree | b9abbeea389163539387da442d2e0d985624cc0d /share | |
| parent | f7aa910a77485f8f205e16933b94680427285272 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 b/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 index 7e784974c57..fc0e1670ab7 100644 --- a/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 +++ b/share/man/man7/packages-specs.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: packages-specs.7,v 1.15 2010/11/15 07:44:23 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: packages-specs.7,v 1.16 2010/11/20 10:05:05 espie Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2001 Marc Espie .\" @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: November 15 2010 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: November 20 2010 $ .Dt PACKAGES-SPECS 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ As a convenience, the ports tree recognizes a specification that starts with STEM, and will replace this with the correct stem, which can be useful for embarrassingly long package names. .Pp +As another convenience, the ports tree recognizes constructs like +.Qq graphics/png>=1.2.0 +and transforms it into +.Qq STEM->=1.2.0:graphics/png . +More specifically, package paths never contain <, >, or =, and those +characters trigger the transform. +.Pp If the flavor specification is left blank, any flavor will do. Note that most default package names don't contain flavor specification, which means that any flavor will do |