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| author | Michael Vogt <egon@bottom> | 2006-12-14 12:39:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Vogt <egon@bottom> | 2006-12-14 12:39:29 +0100 |
| commit | 6ca714d55119e87a01bd475abd08e7212dcafbd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 264c3a939b34f5daea19f45619686f060569f34d /doc | |
| parent | 0660506d1916f6538359f238e860804441ba24f3 (diff) | |
| parent | dc4002d8c3c687e6614d01b34e4b6aa929411ea9 (diff) | |
* merged the apt-breaks-iwj branch
* pulled in the other remaining ubuntu changes
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 |