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authorHenrik Bengtsson <hb@aroma-project.org>2017-01-31 08:26:19 -0800
committerbecker33 <becker33@llnl.gov>2017-01-31 08:26:19 -0800
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DOCS: Examplify what file types are automatically extracted (#2955)
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@@ -535,9 +535,9 @@ These links currently redirect back to `pypi.python.org
Skipping the expand step
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Spack normally expands archives automatically after downloading
-them. If you want to skip this step (e.g., for self-extracting
-executables and other custom archive types), you can add
+Spack normally expands archives (e.g. `*.tar.gz` and `*.zip`) automatically
+after downloading them. If you want to skip this step (e.g., for
+self-extracting executables and other custom archive types), you can add
``expand=False`` to a ``version`` directive.
.. code-block:: python