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| author | Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu> | 2014-07-27 00:19:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu> | 2014-07-28 03:16:00 -0700 |
| commit | ba00258bfb2dd5108ccc353d5dbeefc748dd5235 (patch) | |
| tree | aee743b54c9dc3f22dd1e50ba9064c797f714a9f /docs | |
| parent | 57ed4101687651ba3de59fb75355f4b83ffdca75 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-ba00258bfb2dd5108ccc353d5dbeefc748dd5235.tar.gz | |
Support ghc-pkg --ipid to query package ID.
Summary: Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@cs.stanford.edu>
Test Plan: validate
Reviewers: hvr, simonmar, austin
Subscribers: simonmar, relrod, carter
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D98
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/packages.xml | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/packages.xml b/docs/users_guide/packages.xml index 3f2dd97aa5..0e207171d8 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/packages.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/packages.xml @@ -691,7 +691,9 @@ haskell98-1.0.1.0 package; the specified action will be applied to all the matching packages. A package specifier that matches all version of the package can also be written <replaceable>pkg</replaceable><literal>-*</literal>, - to make it clearer that multiple packages are being matched.</para> + to make it clearer that multiple packages are being matched. To match + against the package ID instead of just package name and version, + pass the <option>--ipid</option> flag.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> @@ -1049,6 +1051,24 @@ ghc-pkg dot | tred | dot -Tpdf >pkgs.pdf </varlistentry> </variablelist> + <varlistentry> + <term> + <option>--ipid</option> + <indexterm><primary> + <option>--ipid</option> + </primary></indexterm> + </term> + <listitem> + <para>Causes <literal>ghc-pkg</literal> to interpret arguments + as package IDs (e.g., an identifier like + <literal>unix-2.3.1.0-de7803f1a8cd88d2161b29b083c94240 + </literal>). This is useful if providing just the package + name and version are ambiguous (in old versions of GHC, this + was guaranteed to be unique, but this invariant no longer + necessarily holds).</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + </sect2> <sect2 id="building-packages"> |