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| author | Johannes 'josch' Schauer <josch@mister-muffin.de> | 2016-05-12 13:07:59 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2016-05-12 14:52:29 +0200 |
| commit | d67db03c2ab853eba7b67c8870af41796eea387c (patch) | |
| tree | b1d49d1db6a6675fca3bf5211d3464843b6e2970 /doc | |
| parent | 5b0577488ff60e7163fe7dc62a044329d398d726 (diff) | |
edsp: document unique package identifiers
Document that package identifiers must be unique (apt only uses the last
action for a given identifier) and that install requests do also imply
upgrades and downgrades (and thus removal of the old version). This is
to prevent that solvers express an upgrade or downgrade instruction as
two stanzas: a removal of the old version and an installation of the new
version. Instead, a single install stanza is sufficient to express
upgrade or downgrade requests.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt index e2bd95866..d914db309 100644 --- a/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt +++ b/doc/external-dependency-solver-protocol.txt @@ -263,11 +263,11 @@ the user. #### Solution -A solution is a list of Deb 822 stanzas. Each of them could be an -install stanza (telling APT to install a specific package), a remove -stanza (telling APT to remove one), or an autoremove stanza (telling APT -about the *future* possibility of removing a package using the -Autoremove action). +A solution is a list of Deb 822 stanzas. Each of them could be an install +stanza (telling APT to install a specific new package or to upgrade or +downgrade a package to a specific version), a remove stanza (telling APT to +remove one), or an autoremove stanza (telling APT about the *future* +possibility of removing a package using the Autoremove action). An **install stanza** starts with an Install field and supports the following fields: @@ -289,6 +289,11 @@ this protocol makes no assumption on the fact that a subsequent invocation of an Autoremove action will actually remove the very same packages indicated by Autoremove stanzas in the former solution. +The package identifiers of install, remove and autoremove stanzas from a single +solution are unique. That is, a package identifier does not occur more than +once in the solution. Every package identifier is only associated with a single +action (either install, remove or autoremove). + In terms of expressivity, install and remove stanzas can carry one single field each, as APT-IDs are enough to pinpoint packages to be installed/removed. Nonetheless, for protocol readability, it is |