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| author | Ian Jackson <ian@liberator> | 2006-08-25 15:39:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Ian Jackson <ian@liberator> | 2006-08-25 15:39:15 +0100 |
| commit | 308c7d30ed2e937cde65e5fed8cbf717fba113c3 (patch) | |
| tree | fcfeac452dc4432f365ec6aa4b0cdc8a590d4d3b /doc | |
| parent | 857a1d4aafc7fd4cc9d1f22c7ef4d274b09c2906 (diff) | |
initial Breaks implementation
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-cache.8.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/cache.sgml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dpkg-tech.sgml | 2 |
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml index 2779f2501..c1e65332d 100644 --- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Reverse Provides: a dependency but were not provided by any package. Missing packages may be in evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a package (real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually they - are referenced from Conflicts statements.</para> + are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements.</para> </listitem> <listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions diff --git a/doc/cache.sgml b/doc/cache.sgml index aa87db986..e257dcd81 100644 --- a/doc/cache.sgml +++ b/doc/cache.sgml @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ This is the parsed priority value of the package. Dependency contains the information for a single dependency record. The records are split up like this to ease processing by the client. The base of list linked list is Version.DependsList. All forms of dependencies are recorded -here including Conflicts, Suggests and Recommends. +here including Conflicts, Breaks, Suggests and Recommends. <p> Multiple depends on the same package must be grouped together in @@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ of them. #define pkgDEP_Recommends 4 #define pkgDEP_Conflicts 5 #define pkgDEP_Replaces 6 +#define pkgDEP_Breaks 8 </example> </sect1> diff --git a/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml b/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml index 23372d71f..7c6e023dd 100644 --- a/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml +++ b/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ The basic dpkg package control file supports the following major features:- productivity of the package <item>Conflicts, to specify a package which must NOT be installed in order for the package to be configured + <item>Breaks, to specify a package which is broken by the + package and which should therefore not be configured while broken </list> Each of these dependencies can specify a version and a depedency on that version, for example "<= 0.5-1", "== 2.7.2-1", etc. The comparators available |