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| author |   Jernej Jakob <jernej.jakob+gentoo@gmail.com> | 2022-06-07 16:13:20 +0200 |
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| committer |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2023-01-14 16:41:48 +0000 |
| commit | 704554770bb49bdfc24e9245404e2f0da938e3d7 (patch) | |
| tree | dfb9eb9b70373538a8cfa959e77b61800635846e /man | |
| parent | NEWS: explain how 'volatile' default is determined (diff) | |
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man/portage.5: document portage skips files that begin with '.' or end '~'
Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/834038
Signed-off-by: Jernej Jakob <jernej.jakob+gentoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index a19e14647..c2c92faaa 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -604,10 +604,11 @@ virtual/aspell\-dict app\-dicts/aspell\-en .TP .BR /etc/portage/ Files in this directory, including make.conf, repos.conf, sets.conf, -and any file with a name that begins with "package.", can be -more than just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that -directory will be sorted in lexical order by file name and summed together -as if it were a single file. +and any file with a name that begins with "package." can also be directories. + +If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory, excluding files +that begin with '.' or end with '~', will be sorted in lexical order by file +name and summed together as if they were a single file. .I Example: .nf |