commit: 6533ffb533c7b29f05315e11c8fdb43854519d37
Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Fri Mar 1 07:52:07 2019 +0000
Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Fri Mar 1 07:52:07 2019 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=6533ffb5
pkg-mgr-commands.tex: Version commands must be shell functions.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org>
pkg-mgr-commands.tex | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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
