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| author | Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> | 2014-06-17 17:03:27 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2014-06-18 11:17:18 +0200 |
| commit | 4010ee76cb1a771d57f1339df725e962df23900e (patch) | |
| tree | 9527ecbb5f3883050808e0915941bf1a9c8f275c | |
| parent | 172947cd7dc5c88c94c6ad269dc6c6be002ee958 (diff) | |
| download | apt-4010ee76cb1a771d57f1339df725e962df23900e.tar.gz | |
EDSP doc: clarify that Install/Remove packages are arch-qualified
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt index 790f2f1e..eb783212 100644 --- a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt +++ b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ external dependency solvers. The protocol is called APT EDSP, for "APT External Dependency Solver Protocol". +## Terminology + +In the following we use the term **architecture qualified package name** +(or *arch-qualified package names* for short) to refer to package +identifiers of the form "arch:package" where "arch" is a dpkg +architecture and "package" a dpkg package name. + + ## Components - **APT**: we know this one. @@ -132,9 +140,9 @@ The following **configuration fields** are supported in request stanzas: The following **action fields** are supported in request stanzas: - **Install:** (optional, defaults to the empty string) A space - separated list of package names, with *no version attached*, to - install. This field denotes a list of packages that the user wants to - install, usually via an APT `install` request. + separated list of arch-qualified package names, with *no version + attached*, to install. This field denotes a list of packages that the + user wants to install, usually via an APT `install` request. - **Remove:** (optional, defaults to the empty string) Same syntax of Install. This field denotes a list of packages that the user wants to @@ -201,7 +209,7 @@ field. The following fields are supported in package stanzas: - **APT-Candidate:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, the corresponding package is the APT candidate for installation among all available packages with the same - name. + name and with the same architecture. - **APT-Automatic:** (optional, defaults to `no`). Allowed values: `yes`, `no`. When set to `yes`, the corresponding package is marked by |