
               pacman - Package Management Utility

               by Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
               <http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/>

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 (more of a hierarchy), 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.  It also
   attempts to handle dependencies automatically and can download packages
   from a remote server.

   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>.

   As of version 2.0, pacman can also keep your system's packages in
   sync with a master server.  You can follow CURRENT and STABLE trees,
   or lock yourself into a specific version.  See the pacman manpage
   for more info on this (--sync operation).


INSTALL:
--------
$ ./configure
$ make
# make 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 libtar, 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 furthur details).

pacman uses "ftplib", a library for sending/receiving files via FTP.  This
library is copyright (c) 1996-2000 Thomas Pfau, pfau@cnj.digex.net (see
libftp/ftplib.c for furthur details).

