pacman/doc/pacman.conf.5

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.TH \*(PB 5 "Feb 07, 2007" "pacman.conf version \*(VR" "\*(DS Files"
.SH NAME
pacman.conf \- pacman package manager configuration file

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpacman\fP, using \fBlibalpm\fP, will attempt to read \fBpacman.conf\fP each
time it is invoked.  This configuration file is divided into sections or
\fIrepositories\fP. Each section defines a package repository that \fBpacman\fP
can use when searching for packages in \fB--sync\fP mode. The exception to this
is the \fIoptions\fP section, which defines global options.

.SH EXAMPLE
.RS
.nf
#
# pacman.conf
#
[options]
NoUpgrade = etc/passwd etc/group etc/shadow
NoUpgrade = etc/fstab

[current]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/current

[custom]
Server = file:///home/pkgs
.fi
.RE

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B DBPath = \fIpath/to/db/dir\fP
Overrides the default location of the toplevel database directory.  The default
is \fIvar/lib/pacman\fP.
.TP
.B CacheDir = \fIpath/to/cache/dir\fP
Overrides the default location of the package cache directory. The default is
\fIvar/cache/pacman\fP.
.TP
.B HoldPkg = \fIpackage\fP ...
If a user tries to \fB--remove\fP a package that's listed in \fBHoldPkg\fI,
\fBpacman\fP will ask for confirmation before proceeding.
.TP
.B IgnorePkg = \fIpackage\fP ...
Instructs \fBpacman\fP to ignore any upgrades for this package when performing a
\fB--sysupgrade\fP.
.TP
.B Include = \fIpath\fP
Include another config file. This file can include repositories or general
configuration options.
.TP
.B XferCommand = \fI/path/to/command %u\fP
If set, an external program will be used to download all remote files.  All
instances of \fB%u\fP will be replaced with the download URL. If present,
instances of \fB%o\fP will be replaced with the local filename, plus a ".part"
extension, which allows programs like wget to do file resumes properly.

This option is useful for users who experience problems with built-in
http/ftp support, or need the more advanced proxy support that comes with
utilities like wget.
.TP
.B NoPassiveFtp
Disables passive ftp connections when downloading packages. (aka Active Mode)
.TP
.B NoUpgrade = \fIfile\fP ...
All files listed with a \fBNoUpgrade\fP directive will never be touched during
a package install/upgrade. Do \fInot\fP include the leading slash when
specifying files.
.TP
.B NoExtract = \fIfile\fP ...
All files listed with a \fBNoExtract\fP directive will never be extracted from
a package into the filesystem. This can be useful when you don't want part of a
package to be installed. For example, if your httpd root uses an index.php,
then you would not want the index.html file to be extracted from the
\fBapache\fP package.
.TP
.B UseSyslog
Log action messages through \fBsyslog()\fP. This will insert log entries into
\fI/var/log/messages\fP or equivalent.
.TP
.B LogFile = \fI/path/to/file\fP
Log actions directly to a file. Default is \fI/var/log/pacman.log\fP.

.SH REPOSITORY SECTIONS
Each repository section defines a section name and at least one location where
the packages can be found. The section name is defined by the string within
square brackets (the two above are 'current' and 'custom'). Locations are
defined with the \fBServer\fP directive and follow a URL naming structure.  If
you want to use a local directory, you can specify the full path with
a 'file://' prefix, as shown above.

The order of repositories in the file matters; repositories listed first will
take precedence over those listed later in the file when packages in two
repositories have identical names, regardless of version number.

.SH USING YOUR OWN REPOSITORY
If you have numerous custom packages of your own, it is often easier to
generate your own custom local repository than install them all with the
\fB--upgrade\fP option. All you need to do is generate a compressed package
database in the directory with these packages so \fBpacman\fP can find it when
run with \fB--refresh\fP.

.RS
.nf
repo-add /home/pkgs/custom.db.tar.gz /home/pkgs/*.pkg.tar.gz
.fi
.RE

The above command will generate a compressed database named
\fI/home/pkgs/custom.db.tar.gz\fP. Note that the database must be of the form
\fI{treename}.db.tar.gz\fP, where {treename} is the name of the section defined
in the configuration file.  That's it!  Now configure your \fIcustom\fP section
in the configuration file as shown in the config example above.  Pacman will
now use your package repository.  If you add new packages to the repository,
remember to re-generate the database and use \fBpacman\fP's --refresh option.

For more information on the \fBrepo-add\fP command, use \fB repo-add --help\fP.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pacman (8),
.BR libalpm (3)

See the Arch Linux website at <http://www.archlinux.org> for more current
information on the distribution and the \fBpacman\fP family of tools.

.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
.fi

See the 'AUTHORS' file for additional contributors.