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| author |   Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2019-03-01 08:52:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org> | 2019-03-01 08:52:07 +0100 |
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| parent | pms.tex: Update copyright notice to comply with GLEP 76. (diff) | |
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pkg-mgr-commands.tex: Version commands must be shell functions.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex index 90b62aa..e3e831f 100644 --- a/pkg-mgr-commands.tex +++ b/pkg-mgr-commands.tex @@ -919,8 +919,9 @@ These functions check whitespace-separated lists for a particular value. \subsection{Version manipulation and comparison commands} \featurelabel{ver-commands} -These commands provide utilities for working with version strings. Their availability per EAPI is -listed in table~\ref{tab:version-commands}. +These commands provide utilities for working with version strings. They must all be implemented +internally as shell functions, i.\,e., they are callable in global scope. Availability of these +commands per EAPI is listed in table~\ref{tab:version-commands}. For the purpose of version manipulation commands, the specification provides a method for splitting an arbitrary version string (not necessarily conforming to section~\ref{sec:version-spec}) into |