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-rw-r--r--files/blacklist.new4
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/files/ChangeLog b/files/ChangeLog
index 1d023a5..1fbe9ad 100644
--- a/files/ChangeLog
+++ b/files/ChangeLog
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ For Next Release
to be ignored by slackpkg. The new behavior is that *only* the
glibc package is ignored. If you want to blacklist all packages
whose names begin with glibc, you would need to add "glibc.*" to
- the blacklist now. (David Woodfall)
+ the blacklist now. Also note that any special characters, e.g. "+",
+ will need to be escaped in the blacklist file. (David Woodfall)
- Add support for listing .new files without PAGER (David Woodfall)
- Remove switch.ch mirrors
- Add config option to allow *not* saving .orig configs (Darren Austin)
diff --git a/files/blacklist.new b/files/blacklist.new
index 37d6145..df47915 100644
--- a/files/blacklist.new
+++ b/files/blacklist.new
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
# To blacklist *all* of the "xorg-server-*" packages, use this:
# xorg-server.*
#
+# You will need to escape any special characters that are present in the
+# package name. For example, to blacklist the gcc-g++ package, use this:
+# gcc-g\+\+
+#
# DON'T put any space(s) before or after the package name or regexp.
# If you do this, the blacklist will NOT work.
#