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authorwiz <wiz@pkgsrc.org>2001-12-03 19:03:19 +0000
committerwiz <wiz@pkgsrc.org>2001-12-03 19:03:19 +0000
commitb4f0a668fa0041bdd4f700917762a64854abd442 (patch)
treeb1dba1934d8e474a3e6946d57aef51d6abcb1540 /pkgtools/rpm2pkg
parentbf1895f0b4ea7e92a31395a74170ce7fad30b048 (diff)
downloadpkgsrc-b4f0a668fa0041bdd4f700917762a64854abd442.tar.gz
Miscellaneous man page fixes.
Diffstat (limited to 'pkgtools/rpm2pkg')
-rw-r--r--pkgtools/rpm2pkg/files/rpm2pkg.866
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/pkgtools/rpm2pkg/files/rpm2pkg.8 b/pkgtools/rpm2pkg/files/rpm2pkg.8
index d5d2277e758..26b3362138f 100644
--- a/pkgtools/rpm2pkg/files/rpm2pkg.8
+++ b/pkgtools/rpm2pkg/files/rpm2pkg.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: rpm2pkg.8,v 1.4 2001/03/20 20:18:07 manu Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: rpm2pkg.8,v 1.5 2001/12/03 19:03:23 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -51,15 +51,17 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
helps in building BSD packages from RPM files by unpacking each specified
-.Ar rpm_file,
-and by building a
+.Ar rpm_file ,
+and by building a
.Ar package_list
according to what was extracted. The
.Ar package_list
-has the format expected by the NetBSD package system.
-.Pp
-.Nm
-also provides a mechanism that helps in selecting what is actually
+has the format expected by the
+.Nx
+package system.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+also provides a mechanism that helps in selecting what is actually
extracted from the RPM files. It is therefore possible to reject files
that are of no interest when building a BSD package. This is especially
useful for files that are to be extracted in
@@ -70,10 +72,12 @@ or
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl d Ar directory
-Change working directory to
+Change working directory to
.Ar directory .
.It Fl f Ar package_list
-Produce a NetBSD package list
+Produce a
+.Nx
+package list
.Ar package_list
from what was actually extracted from the RPM files archives.
.It Fl i Ar ignored_dir
@@ -81,11 +85,11 @@ Do not extract files contained in the
.Ar ignored_dir
directory of the RPM file's archives.
.It Fl p Ar prefix
-Use
-.Ar prefix
+Use
+.Ar prefix
when extracting files.
.It Fl s Ar strip_path_count
-Strip
+Strip
.Ar strip_path_count
leading directories in file names.
.El
@@ -97,26 +101,26 @@ leading directories in file names.
.Fl i Ar tmp
.Fl i Ar var
.Fl i Ar usr/tmp
-.Ar /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/more_linux_lib/foo.rpm
+.Ar /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/more_linux_lib/foo.rpm
.Ar /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/more_linux_lib/bar.rpm
.Pp
-This will extract
-.Pa foo.rpm
+This will extract
+.Pa foo.rpm
and
.Pa bar.rpm
-into
+into
.Pa /usr/pkg/emul/linux .
-A packing list called
+A packing list called
.Pa PLIST_DYNAMIC
-will be created, with pathnames relative to
+will be created, with pathnames relative to
.Pa /usr/pkg ,
-because this is the directory into which we asked
+because this is the directory into which we asked
.Nm
to change with the
.Fl d
option.
.Pp
-.Nm
+.Nm
will not extract files contained in the
.Pa tmp ,
.Pa var ,
@@ -129,9 +133,9 @@ directories of the RPM file's archives.
.Fl d Ar /usr/pkg
.Ar /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/pack/bar.rpm
.Pp
-This will extract the
+This will extract the
.Ar bar.rpm
-file in
+file in
.Pa /usr/pkg
while striping the leading directory of files path in
.Ar bar.rpm .
@@ -140,18 +144,18 @@ This is useful for dealing with RPM archives that contains files like
which you would like to go in
.Pa /usr/pkg/bin .
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
-.Nm
+.Nm
should work with any regular RPM file.
-.Sh AUTHOR(S)
-.An Matthias Scheler Aq tron@netbsd.org
-.br
-This man page was written by
-.An Emmanuel Dreyfus Aq manu@netbsd.org
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr cpio 1 ,
.Xr rpm 8 ,
-.Xr rpm2cpio 8 ,
-.Xr cpio 1
+.Xr rpm2cpio 8
.br
-.Em Dq Documentation on the NetBSD Package System ,
+.Em Dq Documentation on the NetBSD Package System ,
.An Hubert Feyrer Aq hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de ,
.An Alistair Crooks Aq agc@pkgsrc.org
+.Sh AUTHORS
+.An Matthias Scheler Aq tron@netbsd.org
+.br
+This man page was written by
+.An Emmanuel Dreyfus Aq manu@netbsd.org