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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2018-10-05 02:47:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2018-10-07 19:34:15 +0200 |
| commit | ef3fb80f0ba464a3531bdca6b9bd9b5483cb2977 (patch) | |
| tree | a52cff8b7682d541697877a46134a0a40ac1f659 /man | |
| parent | e2b53a0ce84207b8ebd34422bae797ad435e44f1 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-ef3fb80f0ba464a3531bdca6b9bd9b5483cb2977.tar.gz | |
man: Clarify which fields are affected by dependency options
This includes the --force-breaks, --force-conflicts, --force-depends,
--force-depends-versio and --ignore-depends.
Prompted-by: James Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> (on IRC)
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg.man | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg.man b/man/dpkg.man index bf7b5a96a..588a21746 100644 --- a/man/dpkg.man +++ b/man/dpkg.man @@ -553,16 +553,20 @@ cause the whole system to stop working, so use with caution. \fBdepends\fP: Turn all dependency problems into warnings. +This affects the \fBPre\-Depends\fP and \fBDepends\fP fields. \fBdepends\-version\fP: Don't care about versions when checking dependencies. +This affects the \fBPre\-Depends\fP and \fBDepends\fP fields. \fBbreaks\fP: Install, even if this would break another package (since dpkg 1.14.6). +This affects the \fBBreaks\fP field. \fBconflicts\fP: Install, even if it conflicts with another package. This is dangerous, for it will usually cause overwriting of some files. +This affects the \fBConflicts\fP field. \fBconfmiss\fP: Always install the missing conffile without prompting. This is dangerous, @@ -647,6 +651,7 @@ Install a package even if it fails authenticity check. \fB\-\-ignore\-depends\fP=\fIpackage\fP,... Ignore dependency-checking for specified packages (actually, checking is performed, but only warnings about conflicts are given, nothing else). +This affects the \fBPre\-Depends\fP, \fBDepends\fP and \fBBreaks\fP fields. .TP \fB\-\-no\-act\fP, \fB\-\-dry\-run\fP, \fB\-\-simulate\fP Do everything which is supposed to be done, but don't write any |