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| author | Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org> | 2009-08-20 22:34:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org> | 2009-08-20 22:34:25 +0000 |
| commit | 62e9c52a4ef25a187892784f8308fac10a072832 (patch) | |
| tree | cf7be9f3135d1801e028d700e865c5d4778ecfdc | |
| parent | 5c1641dbdbdc401d0127efeb1f2eff990c22a7cb (diff) | |
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Fix portage.5 man page to document the fact that some files in profiles directory can be directories.
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 37bf93148..6cc46706a 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -143,6 +143,18 @@ settings, use \fB/etc/portage/profile/\fR (it supports all of the same file types that \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR does, except parent). Do NOT edit the settings in \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR because they WILL be lost with the next `emerge \-\-sync`. + +Any file in this directory, directories of other profiles or top-level +"profiles" directory that begins with "package." or "use." can be more than +just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory +will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together +as if it were a single file. + +.I Example: +.nf +/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/removals +/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/testing +.fi .RS .TP .BR deprecated |