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diff --git a/doc/zutils.texi b/doc/zutils.texi index 459d38d..a263099 100644 --- a/doc/zutils.texi +++ b/doc/zutils.texi @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ @finalout @c %**end of header -@set UPDATED 5 December 2022 -@set VERSION 1.12-rc1 +@set UPDATED 7 January 2023 +@set VERSION 1.12 @dircategory Compression @direntry @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ This manual is for Zutils (version @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}). @end menu @sp 1 -Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2022 Antonio Diaz Diaz. +Copyright @copyright{} 2009-2023 Antonio Diaz Diaz. This manual is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, distribute, and modify it. @@ -906,10 +906,6 @@ file is not deleted. The operation of @command{zupdate} is meant to be safe and not cause any data loss. Therefore, existing lzip compressed files are never overwritten nor deleted. -Recompressing files from a read-only file system to another place can be -done by first linking the files from the destination directory and then -compressing the links: @w{@samp{ln -s /src/foo.gz . && zupdate foo.gz}} - Combining the options @option{--force} and @option{--keep}, as in @w{@samp{zupdate -f -k *.gz}}, verifies that there are no differences between each pair of files in a multiformat set of files. @@ -919,7 +915,7 @@ The names of the original files must have one of the following extensions:@* recompressed to @samp{.lz};@* @samp{.tbz}, @samp{.tbz2}, @samp{.tgz}, @samp{.txz}, or @samp{.tzst}, which are recompressed to @samp{.tlz}.@* -Keeping the combined extensions @w{(@samp{.tgz} --> @samp{.tlz})} may be +Keeping the combined extensions @w{(@samp{.tgz} ---> @samp{.tlz})} may be useful when recompressing Slackware packages, for example. Bzip2, gzip, and lzip are the primary formats. Xz and zstd are optional. If @@ -984,6 +980,8 @@ Ignore non-fatal errors. (See exit status above). @item -k @itemx --keep Keep (don't delete) the input file after comparing it with the lzip file. +Use it when recompressing files from a read-only file system. (See option +@option{--destdir} above). @item -l @itemx --lzip-verbose |