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diff --git a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt index 7d41571de..477bc23ed 100644 --- a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt +++ b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt @@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ Within a dependency solving scenario, a request represents the action on installed packages requested by the user. A request is a single Deb 822 stanza opened by a mandatory Request field -and followed by a mixture of action and preference fields. +and followed by a mixture of action, preference, and global +configuration fields. The value of the **Request:** field is a string describing the EDSP protocol which will be used to communicate. At present, the string must @@ -118,6 +119,16 @@ be `EDSP 0.5`. Request fields are mainly used to identify the beginning of a request stanza; their actual values are otherwise not used by the EDSP protocol. +The following **configuration fields** are supported in request stanzas: + +- **Architecture:** (mandatory) The name of the *native* architecture on + the user machine (see also: `dpkg --print-architecture`) + +- **Architectures:** (optional, defaults to the native architecture) A + space separated list of *all* architectures known to APT (this is + roughly equivalent to the union of `dpkg --print-architecture` and + `dpkg --print-foreign-architectures`) + The following **action fields** are supported in request stanzas: - **Install:** (optional, defaults to the empty string) A space |