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Updated READ ME to cover new 'update_for' key

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Greg Neagle
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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Use 'makepkginfo' to create pkginfo files - it does the hard work so you don't h
These examples don't show all the supported keys. Here's a few more:
There are two kinds of dependency keys.
There are three types of dependency/relationship keys.
'requires' are prerequisites: package A requires package B be installed first.
if package A is removed, package B is unaffected.
@@ -27,10 +27,28 @@ The value for 'modifies' must be a string that unambiguously resolves to a speci
<key>modifies</key>
<string>Office2008-12.0.0.0.0</string>
when processing installs, the two dependencies are basically equivalent;
the real difference comes when processing removals.
'modifies' has been deprecated and support for it will be removed in
a future release.
The third type of relationship is "update_for".
This signifies that that current package should be considered an update
for the packages listed in the "update_for" array. When processing a
package, we look through the catalogs for other packages that declare
they are updates for the current package and install them if needed.
This can be a one-to-many relationship - one package can be an update
for several other packages; for example, "PhotoshopCS4update-11.0.1"
could be an update for PhotoshopCS4 and for AdobeCS4DesignSuite.
When removing an item, any updates for that item are removed as well.
With 'requires' and 'update_for' you can completely replace the
functionality of 'modifies', plus do more, so 'modifies' is on its way
out.
Supported architectures:
If an installer item is valid only for PowerPC or only for Intel, you can include a supported_architectures key: