Manual.md: add documentation describing repositories and the repository variable.

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- `noarch` If set, the binary package is not architecture specific and can be shared
by all supported architectures.
- `nonfree` If set, the binary package will be put into the *non free* repository.
- `repository` Defines the repository in which the package will be placed. See
*Repositories* for a list of valid repositories.
- `nostrip` If set, the ELF binaries with debugging symbols won't be stripped. By
default all binaries are stripped.
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defined in `reverts` must be lesser than the one defined in `version`.
example: `reverts="2.0_1 2.0_2"`
#### Repositories
##### Repositories defined by Branch
The global repository takes the name of
the current branch, except if the name of the branch is master. Then the resulting
repository will be at the global scope. The usage scenario is that the user can
update multiple packages in a second branch without polluting his local repository.
##### Package defined Repositories
The second way to define a repository is by setting the `repository` variable in
a template. This way the maintainer can define repositories for a specific
package or a group of packages. This is currently used to distinguish between
closed source packages, which are put in the `nonfree` repository and other
packages which are at the root-repository.
The following repository names are valid:
* `nonfree`: Repository for closed source packages.
#### Checking for new upstream releases
For automatic checking of new versions, in some cases you need to define