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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2016-04-12 15:36:24 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2016-04-12 15:36:24 +0200
commite0c4d1dc2b6bc5ee238ea94cd0803855a337efdf (patch)
tree14d312935b6cd16bb6beea5c8945c326949d1e51 /bpkg/pkg-install.cli
parentf4120bea7831bfd894e03dd25e3849cd84571f8b (diff)
Set common variables in pkg-* commands on the whole configuration
This makes a difference, for example, in pkg-install where install.root is needed by prerequisites.
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diff --git a/bpkg/pkg-install.cli b/bpkg/pkg-install.cli
index 24ccc43..c612d23 100644
--- a/bpkg/pkg-install.cli
+++ b/bpkg/pkg-install.cli
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ namespace bpkg
Additional command line variables (<vars>, normally \cb{config.*}) can be
passed to the build system by either specifying them before the packages,
- in which case they apply to all of them, or after a specific package, in
- which case they apply only to this package. Specifically, this mechanism
- can be used to specify the installation directory, for example:
+ in which case they apply to the whole configuration, or after a specific
+ package, in which case they apply only to this package. In particular,
+ this mechanism can be used to specify the installation directory, for
+ example:
\
bpkg install config.install.root=/usr/local \