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.