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| author | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2007-04-17 00:00:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Marc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2007-04-17 00:00:56 +0000 |
| commit | d7792e19db0a20a8c6fe2811933dfc4c4955bbb2 (patch) | |
| tree | cfcfd896bc54a52031cf88a98e942c3a9ae3a7ef /usr.sbin | |
| parent | c9def03384d6622f5d244b68988f1fa22231faf3 (diff) | |
document the subtle tweak to Vstat that allows updates to account for
size issues accurately.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Vstat.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Vstat.pod b/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Vstat.pod index dac2dd65b01..d3181901796 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Vstat.pod +++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_add/pod/OpenBSD::Vstat.pod @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: OpenBSD::Vstat.pod,v 1.2 2006/02/07 11:34:32 espie Exp $ +$OpenBSD: OpenBSD::Vstat.pod,v 1.3 2007/04/17 00:00:55 espie Exp $ =head1 NAME @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ the C<$tag> specified as an optional argument. Otherwise, it returns 1. C<OpenBSD::Vstat:tally> displays a summary of filesystem manipulations after a series of additions and removals. +Due to the way packages get updated, size modifications through +C<OpenBSD::Vstat::remove> are delayed until the next call to +C<OpenBSD::Vstat::synchronize>: old files must be removed before +adding the new files in order to properly account for collisions, +but the old files occupy disk space while the new package gets extracted. + =head1 CAVEATS The API to this module may change. |