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2016-06-27eipp: implement version 0.1 of the protocolDavid Kalnischkies
The very first step in introducing the "external installation planer protocol" (short: EIPP) as part of my GSoC2016 project. The description reads: APT-based tools like apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, … work with the user to figure out how their system should look like after they are done installing/removing packages and their dependencies. The actual installation/removal of packages is done by dpkg with the constrain that dependencies must be fulfilled at any point in time (e.g. to run maintainer scripts). Historically APT has a super micro-management approach to this task which hasn't aged that well over the years mostly ignoring changes in dpkg and growing into an unmaintainable mess hardly anyone can debug and everyone fears to touch – especially as more and more requirements are tacked onto it like handling cycles and triggers, dealing with "important" packages first, package sources on removable media, touch minimal groups to be able to interrupt the process if needed (e.g. unattended-upgrades) which not only sky-rocket complexity but also can be mutually exclusive as you e.g. can't have minimal groups and minimal trigger executions at the same time.
2016-05-25use *.docs files instead of hardcoding in debian/rulesDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2016-05-08implement Identifier field for IndexTargetsDavid Kalnischkies
A frontend like apt-file is only interested in a specific set of files and selects those easily via "Created-By". If it supports two locations for those files through it would need to select both and a user would need to know that implementation detail for sources.list configuration. The "Identifier" field is hence introduced which by default has the same value as "Created-By", but can be freely configured – especially it can be used to give two indexes the same identifier.
2014-04-28debian/apt-doc.docs: remove README.MultiArchMichael Vogt
2011-04-04install EDSP protocol description in apt-docStefano Zacchiroli
2010-02-13Add a more or less useful README file for everything related to MultiArchDavid Kalnischkies
and install it in the apt-doc package.
2005-08-09* merged from mainMichael Vogt
Patches applied: * apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0--patch-106 Restore lost changelog entries * apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0--patch-107 Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0 * apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0--patch-108 Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0 * apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0--patch-109 Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0 * apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0--patch-110 Merge michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0 * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--fixes--0--patch-5 * merged with apt--main--0 * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--base-0 tag of apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0--patch-85 * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-1 * inital proof of concept code, understands what dpkg tells it already * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-2 * progress reporting works now * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-3 * added "APT::Status-Fd" variable * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-4 * do i18n now too * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-5 * define N_(x) if it is not defined already * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-6 * PackageManager::DoInstall(int status_fd) added (does not break the ABI) * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-7 * merged with apt--fixes--0 to make it build again * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-8 * added support for "error" and "conffile-prompt" messages from dpkg * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-9 merge with main * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-10 * use sizeof() for all snprintf() uses; fix a potential line break problem in the status reading code; changed the N_() to _() calls * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-11 * added APT::KeepFDs configuration list for file descriptors that apt should leave open (needed for various frontends like debconf, synaptic) * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-12 * fixed a API breakage * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-13 * doc added, should be releasable now * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-14 * merged with apt--main--0 * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-15 * more source comments, added Debug::DpkgPM debug code to inspect the dpkg<->apt communication, broke the abi (ok with matt) * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-16 * the progress reporting has it's own "Debug::pkgDPkgProgressReporting" debug variable now * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-17 * merged PackageOps and TranslatedPackageOps into a single Map with the new DpkgState struct * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-18 * clear the APT::Keep-Fds configuration when it's no longer needed * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-19 * rewrote the reading from dpkg so that it never blocks * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-20 * merged the two status arrays into one * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-21 * added support for download progress reporting too (for Kamion and base-config) * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-22 * ABI break; added Configuration::Clear(string List, {int,string} value) added (to remove a single Value from a list); test/conf_clear.cc added * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-23 * remvoed a debug string * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-24 * soname changed, fixed a bug in the parsing code when dpkg send the same state more than once (at the end) * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-25 * merged with apt@packages.debian.org/apt--main--0, added changelog entry for the 0.6.40.1 upload * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-26 * fix a bug when out-of-order states are send from dpkg * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-27 * changelog update * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-28 * a real changelog entry now * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-29 * changelog finalized * michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0--patch-30 * propper (and sane) support for pmerror and pmconffile added