
               pacman - Package Management Utility

               by Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>

DESCRIPTION:
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   pacman is a utility which manages software packages in Linux.  It uses
   simple .tar.gz files as a package format, and maintains a text-based
   package database, just in case some hand tweaking is necessary.

   pacman does not strive to "do everything."  It will add, remove and
   upgrade packages in the system, and it will allow you to query the
   package database for installed packages, files and owners.

	 Although the package manager itself is quite simple, the pacman tarball
	 also comes with scripts that help automate building and installing
	 packages.  These are used extensively in the Arch Build System (ABS),
	 used in Arch Linux <http://www.archlinux.org>.  See ABS.txt for more
	 information.

	 As of version 1.2, pacsync is included as well.  This performs an apt-like
	 function, keeping your system's packages in sync with the packages on
	 a remote server.

   Plans exist for dependency checking as I approach version 2.0.
   See TODO for more info.


INSTALL:
--------
$ make install
or
$ make DESTDIR=/your/path/here install

If your man files are located in a directory other than /usr/man, you may
want to edit Makefile and modify the MANDIR line accordingly.

Note:  Since pacman is compiled statically, you will need the static libraries
       for glibc and zlib.


BUGS:
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If you find bugs (which is quite likely), please submit them to
<jvinet@zeroflux.org> with specific information, such as your
commandline, the nature of the bug, and even the package database, if
it helps.


COPYRIGHT:
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pacman is Copyright (c) 2002 Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org> and is
licensed through the GNU General Public License (see COPYING).

pacman uses "libtar", a library for reading/writing tar-files. This 
library is Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu> (see 
libtar-X.X.X/COPYRIGHT for further details).
