Merge pull request #665 from Morganamilo/fix#664

Expand documentation for --devel
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J Guerreiro authored and GitHub committed 2018-08-28 20:22:40 +01:00
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@@ -321,7 +321,14 @@ Show AUR packages first and then repository packages.
.TP
.B \-\-devel
During sysupgrade also check AUR development packages for updates. Currently
only GitHub packages are supported.
only Git packages are supported.
Devel checking is done using \fBgit ls-remote\fR. The newest commit hash is
compared against the hash at install time. This allows devel updates to be
checked almost instantly and not require the original pkgbuild to be downloaded.
The slower pacaur-like devel checks can be implemented manually by piping
a list of packages into yay (see \fBexamples\fR).
.TP
.B \-\-nodevel
@@ -502,6 +509,10 @@ Sets devel to true in the config.
yay \-P \-\-stats
Shows statistics for installed packages and system health.
.TP
pacman -Qmq | grep -Ee '-(cvs|svn|git|hg|bzr|darcs)$' | yay -S --needed -
pacaur-like devel check.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B CONFIG DIRECTORY