X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/578bfd0aed2ec993f4ad85fa6a7094a852261422..2de7157775551185beb3d7cb56e9f9f353e57ab4:/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml diff --git a/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml b/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml index 3c01ee8f0..1a15f6a4c 100644 --- a/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml +++ b/doc/dpkg-tech.sgml @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ - + dpkg technical manual Tom Lees tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk -$Id: dpkg-tech.sgml,v 1.1 1998/07/02 02:58:12 jgg Exp $ +$Id: dpkg-tech.sgml,v 1.3 2003/02/12 15:05:45 doogie Exp $ 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.

-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. @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ The basic dpkg package control file supports the following major features:- productivity of the package Conflicts, to specify a package which must NOT be installed in order for the package to be configured + Breaks, to specify a package which is broken by the + package and which should therefore not be configured while broken 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. 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. 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.