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author Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>2018-05-28 19:12:29 +0000
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2018-05-31 23:39:35 +0200
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a/pkgtools-15.0-noarch-13.txz: Rebuilt. installpkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns. removepkg: added --terse mode. upgradepkg: default line length for --terselength is the number of columns. upgradepkg: accept -option in addition to --option. ap/vim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. d/bison-3.0.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. e/emacs-26.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. kde/kopete-4.14.3-x86_64-8.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against libidn-1.35. n/conntrack-tools-1.4.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/libnetfilter_conntrack-1.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/libnftnl-1.1.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/links-2.16-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt. Rebuilt to enable X driver for -g mode. n/lynx-2.8.9dev.19-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/nftables-0.8.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/p11-kit-0.23.11-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/ulogd-2.0.7-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. n/whois-5.3.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/network-manager-applet-1.8.12-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. xap/vim-gvim-8.1.0026-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
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diff --git a/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/installpkg.8 b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/installpkg.8
index 534f20849..f06e611df 100644
--- a/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/installpkg.8
+++ b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/installpkg.8
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ installpkg \- install Slackware packages.
.B \--terse
]
[
+.B \--terselength <length>
+]
+[
.B \--ask
]
[
@@ -39,13 +42,16 @@ installpkg \- install Slackware packages.
[
.B \--tagfile /somedir/tagfile
]
+[
+.B \--threads <number>
+]
.BI packagename
[
.B packagename2 ...
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B installpkg
-installs single or multiple *.tgz (or .tbz, .tlz, .txz) binary packages designed
+installs single or multiple *.txz (or .tbz, .tgz, .tlz) binary packages designed
for use with the Slackware Linux distribution onto your system.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
@@ -73,6 +79,9 @@ package(s) or not. Generally used when installpkg is called from other scripts.
.B \--terse
Install the package displaying only a single description line to stdout.
.TP
+.B \--terselength <length>
+Maximum line length of --terse mode output. Default is the number of terminal columns.
+.TP
.B \--ask
Used with -menu mode. When selected, always ask if a package should be
installed regardless of what the package's priority is.
@@ -87,6 +96,12 @@ the values set in the tagfile for the entire package list.
.B \--tagfile /somedir/tagfile
Specify a different file to use for package priorities (in this example, /somedir/tagfile
will be used). The default is "tagfile" in the package's directory.
+.TP
+.B \--threads <number>
+For xz/plzip compressed packages, set the maximum number of threads to be used for
+decompression. Only has an effect if a multithreaded compressor was used, and then
+only on large packages. The default for plzip is the number of CPU threads available.
+The default for xz is 2.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B Install a font package for X: