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moormaster

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Registered: 2009-11-09

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Dovecot wiki entry references unknown pacman setting

I am trying to follow the wiki for dovecot and have problems to understand the following sentence mentioned in the Dovecot#Dovecot_configuration paragraph:

pacman by default some containers is configured not to extract the doc directories to packages. Please edit /etc/pacman.conf to prevent this.

1. What does "container" mean in the context of pacman?
2. What does it mean to extract a directory to a package?

The manpages for pacman.conf.5, pacman.8 do not mention the word container. Is NoExtract= the setting referred by the dovecot wiki entry or is it referring to something else?

Last edited by moormaster (2023-12-21 14:11:05)

seth

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Re: Dovecot wiki entry references unknown pacman setting

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … ode=source

I *guess* what that's supposed to mean is "I once installed an archlinux docker and it had a pacman.conf w/ some surprising NoExtract lines in it" - anecdotally.
And it's written like I sometimes (too often) write comments here, w/o reading them before hitting submit.
The result can the be two different sentences (initial draft + refinement) merged into one, resulting in wonky grammar.

The section needs to be fixed or arguebly removed, because "random docker images do weird shit" is completely off-topic for dovecot.
=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:Dovecot

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moormaster

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Re: Dovecot wiki entry references unknown pacman setting

Thanks for the investigation. I fixed the phrasing of the old confusing sentence and added a comment in the discussion section about whether this hint should belong there at all.