* craigw (craigw@lvcm.com) [020428 09:31]:
> a-ha. Thank you. I've been wondering about that. You see, the manpage
> for dpkg lists a -R flag twice, and I find it very confusing. First is
> this one:
>
> -R | --recursive
> (recursively install all debs in dir & subdirs)
>
> Okay, makes sense, no problems there. But then, only a couple lines
> farther down, is this mess:
>
> -R | --root=dir | --admindir=dir | --instdir=dir
> Change default directories. admindir defaults to
Strange, I don't see that. Maybe it's an old bug that was fixed since
the version I have? mine just shows
--root=dir | --admindir=dir | --instdir=dir
that's with
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii dpkg 1.9.20 Package maintenance system for Debian
good times,
Vineet
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