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| author | obache <obache@pkgsrc.org> | 2014-05-09 09:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | obache <obache@pkgsrc.org> | 2014-05-09 09:45:27 +0000 |
| commit | c7af062d9c2c69f4214d8035294bdda7c4217b85 (patch) | |
| tree | 03afada1f49ea09b4f19ccc70195093a6eb72faa /doc/guide/files | |
| parent | 78212880149d74ca8ba88ba65722696e27dc89c5 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-c7af062d9c2c69f4214d8035294bdda7c4217b85.tar.gz | |
Describe about ALTERNATIVES.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guide/files/components.xml | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml index 14fc050b741..97df41d348c 100644 --- a/doc/guide/files/components.xml +++ b/doc/guide/files/components.xml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.45 2014/05/09 08:14:06 obache Exp $ --> +<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.46 2014/05/09 09:45:27 obache Exp $ --> <chapter id="components"> <?dbhtml filename="components.html"?> <title>Package components - files, directories and contents</title> @@ -609,9 +609,21 @@ MESSAGE_SUBST+= SOMEVAR="somevalue" </listitem> </varlistentry> - <varlistentry><term><filename>ALTERNATIVES</filename></term> - <listitem><para>FIXME: There is no documentation on the - alternatives framework.</para></listitem></varlistentry> + <varlistentry> + <term><filename>ALTERNATIVES</filename></term> + + <listitem> + <para>This file is used by alternatives system. + It creates, configure and destroys generic wrappers used to + run programs with similar intterfaces. + See pkg_alternatives(8) from pkgtools/pkg_alternatives + for more information.</para> + + <para>Each line of the file contains two filenames, first + the wrapper and then the alternative provided by the package. + Both paths are relative to <varname>PREFIX</varname>.</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> </variablelist> |