Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:00:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: chad@anasazi.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: documentation suggestion Message-ID: <9876.859449654@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:47:06 MST." <9703270747.AA09178@chad.anasazi.com>
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> Silly me. I took the word "override" in the man page literally. I > quote: > > @srcdir directory > Sets the internal directory pointer for _creation only_ to directory. > That is to say that it overrides @cwd for package creation but > not extraction. > > How about instead for the second sentence to read "Works just like @cwd > except it is ignored during extraction." Uh, but it's correct. :-) @srcdir really does override, that is to say overlay, @cwd. The two values can exist independantly of one another and @srcdir is only preferred if seen during creation, after that the @cwd variable takes precedence. Jordan
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