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View the commit online: https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=6b00932cea6157999cc8b3081bff678d8ab011f8 commit 6b00932cea6157999cc8b3081bff678d8ab011f8 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed Aug 13 08:58:52 2025 +0200 man: Fix DPKG_ROOT documentation in dpkg(1) Make it clear that the variable is set to instdir, and not that instdir is set to something. Closes: #1110873 --- man/dpkg.pod | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/dpkg.pod b/man/dpkg.pod index 8349f0afd..001373b75 100644 --- a/man/dpkg.pod +++ b/man/dpkg.pod @@ -1438,8 +1438,8 @@ During normal operation, this variable is empty. When installing packages into a different B<instdir>, B<dpkg> normally invokes maintainer scripts using L<chroot(2)> and leaves this variable empty, but if B<--force-script-chrootless> is -specified then the L<chroot(2)> call is skipped and B<instdir> -is non-empty. +specified then the L<chroot(2)> call is skipped and +this variable is set to B<instdir> (which will be non-empty). =item B<DPKG_ADMINDIR> -- Dpkg.Org's dpkg
