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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/makepkg.8 b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/makepkg.8
index b280ce51f..0f239a9b2 100644
--- a/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/makepkg.8
+++ b/source/a/pkgtools/manpages/makepkg.8
@@ -18,6 +18,18 @@ makepkg \- make Slackware packages.
[
.B -c, --chown y|n
]
+[
+.B --threads <number>
+]
+[
+.B --compress <option>
+]
+[
+.B --acls
+]
+[
+.B --xattrs
+]
.BI packagename
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B makepkg
@@ -30,9 +42,9 @@ appended to the primary installation script
, or, if that script does not exist it will be created with those contents.
The package will be written out to the file
.BI packagename
-which should be the full name, including the extension. This is usually .tgz,
-but .tbz, .tlz, and .txz are also accepted. The proper compression utility
-(gzip, bzip2, lzma, or xz) needs to be installed on the machine.
+which should be the full name, including the extension. This is usually .txz,
+but .tgz, .tbz, and .tlz are also accepted. The proper compression utility
+(xz, gzip, bzip2, or lzip) needs to be installed on the machine.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-l, --linkadd y|n
@@ -51,6 +63,23 @@ If y, makepkg will reset all directory permissions to 755 and ownership to root:
In general, you should have the permissions and ownerships worked out yourself, so
relying on setting this option to y is somewhat sloppy. It is not the default. If an
option is not provided, makepkg will prompt.
+.TP
+.B --threads <number>
+For xz/plzip compressed packages, set the maximum number of threads to be used for
+compression. Only has an effect on large packages. For plzip, the default is the number
+of CPU threads available. For xz, the default is 2 (due to commonly occuring memory
+related failures on 32-bit with too many threads and multithreaded xz compression).
+.TP
+.B --compress <option>
+Supply a custom option to the compressor. This will be used in place of the default, which is: -9
+.TP
+.B --acls
+Support storing POSIX ACLs in the package. The resulting package will not be compatible
+with pkgtools version < 15.0.
+.TP
+.B --xattrs
+Support storing extended attributes in the package. The resulting package will not be
+compatible with pkgtools version < 15.0.
.SH INSTALLATION SCRIPTS
There are 3 types of installation scripts supported in the Slackware package
system.