From aa1300faddadcd1bec65670c853a39186efd8a05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kupec Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:01:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - --root doc update --- doc/zypper.8 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/zypper.8 b/doc/zypper.8 index dfb9ec4..d2fc2ca 100644 --- a/doc/zypper.8 +++ b/doc/zypper.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH "zypper" "8" "0.9.0" "zypper" "System Tools" +.TH "zypper" "8" "0.9.2" "zypper" "System Tools" .SH "SYNTAX" .LP zypper [\fI\-\-global\-options\fR] <\fBcommand\fR> [\fI\-\-command\-options\fR] [\fBcommand-arguments\fR] @@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ zypper [\fI\-\-global\-options\fR] <\fBcommand\fR> [\fI\-\-command\-options\fR] zypper \fI\-\-help\fR [\fBcommand\fR] .SH "DESCRIPTION" .LP -zypper is a command\-line interface to ZYpp system management library. It can be used to install, update, remove software, manage repositories, perform various searches, and more. +zypper is a command\-line interface to ZYpp system management library. +It can be used to install, update, remove software, manage repositories, perform +various searches, and more. .SH "COMMANDS" .LP @@ -365,7 +367,12 @@ Switches to non-interactive mode. In this mode zypper doesn't ask user to type a Ignore GPG check failures and continue. If a GPG issue occurs when using this option zypper prints and logs a warning and automatically continues without interrupting the operation. Use this option with causion, as you can easily overlook security problems by using it. .TP .I \-R, \-\-root -Operates on a different root directory. +Operates on a different root directory. This option influences the location +of the repos.d directory and the meta-data cache directory and also causes rpm +to be run with the --root option to do the actual installation or removal of +packages. Note that the ZYpp lock is still created in the original system, +as well as temporary files. See also the FILES section. + .TP .I \-D, \-\-reposd\-dir Use the specified directory to look for the repository definition (*.repo) files. @@ -424,7 +431,10 @@ Directory containing repository definition (*.repo) files. You can use the \fBrepo\fR commands to manipulate these files, or you can edit them yourself. In either case, after doing the modifications, executing \fBzypper refresh\fR is strongly recommended. -Use the \-\-reposd\-dir global option to use an alternative directory for this purpose. + +You can use the \-\-reposd\-dir global option to use an alternative directory +for this purpose or the \-\-root option to make this directory relative to the +specified root directory. .TP .B /etc/zypp/zypp.conf ZYpp configuration file. @@ -434,12 +444,15 @@ File with package lock definitions, see the section LOCKS. .TP .B /var/cache/zypp/raw Directory for storing raw metadata contained in repositories. -Use the \-\-raw\-cache\-dir global option to use an alternative directory for this purpose. +Use the \-\-raw\-cache\-dir global option to use an alternative directory +for this purpose or the \-\-root option to make this directory relative to the +specified root directory. .TP .B /var/cache/zypp/zypp.db Sqlite database file containing pre-parsed metadata of all repositories. Use the \-\-cache\-dir global option to use an alternative directory -for the zypp.db file. +for the zypp.db file or the \-\-root option to make its default location +relative to the specified root directory. .TP .B ~/.zypper_history Command history for the shell. -- 2.7.4