add new config options "Acquire::ForceIPv4" and

[apt.git] / doc / dpkg-tech.sgml

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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <title>dpkg technical manual</title>
 
 <author>Tom Lees <email>tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk</email></author>
-<version>$Id: dpkg-tech.sgml,v 1.2 2002/09/15 23:14:34 jgg Exp $</version>
+<version>$Id: dpkg-tech.sgml,v 1.3 2003/02/12 15:05:45 doogie Exp $</version>
 
 <abstract>
 This document describes the minimum necessary workings for the APT dselect
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
 option) any later version.
 
 <p>
-For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file
-/usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.
+For more details, on Debian systems, see the file
+/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license.
 </copyright>
 
 <toc sect>
@@ -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
@@ -162,7 +164,7 @@ not copied into here; it is instead found as part of status or available.
 <item>methods - this directory is reserved for "method"-specific files - each
 "method" has a subdirectory underneath this directory (or at least, it can
 have). In addition, there is another subdirectory "mnt", where misc.
-filesystems (floppies, CDROMs, etc.) are mounted.
+filesystems (floppies, CD-ROMs, etc.) are mounted.
 <item>alternatives - directory used by the "update-alternatives" program. It
 contains one file for each "alternatives" interface, which contains information
 about all the needed symlinked files for each alternative.