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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-03-10 09:31:05 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2018-03-10 09:31:05 +0200
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@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ namespace bpkg
control}-based repositories are supported. A repository is identified by
its location which can be a local filesystem path or a URL.
+ If the same version of a package is available from multiple repositories,
+ then they are assumed to contain identical package content. In such cases
+ \cb{bpkg} prefers local repositories over remote and among local
+ repositories it prefers the ones with external packages (see
+ \l{bpkg-pkg-unpack(1)} for details on external packages).
+
A typical \cb{bpkg} workflow would consist of the following steps.
\dl|