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| author | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-12-14 14:28:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2020-12-27 13:36:07 +0100 |
| commit | 53d18fe48618c9864de021cc5862685faac7c752 (patch) | |
| tree | 75426646b4aac37272f746b97388f52002922092 /doc | |
| parent | 4215b6b2ce64f7bd0988c63c8d7d3e34833ec813 (diff) | |
patterns: Add dependency patterns ?depends, ?conflicts, etc.
These match the target package, not target versions which is
slightly unfortunate but might make sense. Maybe we should add
a version that matches Versions instead.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-patterns.7.xml | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml index 168ba3c59..161d8ded3 100644 --- a/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml +++ b/doc/apt-patterns.7.xml @@ -153,7 +153,23 @@ </variablelist> </refsect1> + <refsect1><title>Package relationship patterns</title> + <para>These patterns match specific package versions that depend/conflict with some other packages.</para> + <variablelist> + <varlistentry> + <term><code>?depends(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DPATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?pre-depends(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DPre-Depends:PATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?suggests(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DSuggests:PATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?conflicts(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DConflicts:PATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?replaces(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DReplaces:PATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?obsoletes(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DObsoletes:PATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?breaks(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DBreaks:PATTERN</code></term> + <term><code>?enhances(PATTERN)</code></term><term><code>~DEnhances:PATTERN</code></term> + <listitem><para>Selects packages depending/pre-depending/suggesting/conflicting/etc on/with/ packages matching PATTERN.</para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + </variablelist> + </refsect1> <refsect1><title>Examples</title> <variablelist> <varlistentry><term><code>apt remove ?garbage</code></term> @@ -206,6 +222,9 @@ <para>Grouping patterns with <code>(...)</code> or writing <code>?or(A,B)</code> as <code>A|B</code> are not supported. We do not believe that the use of <code>|</code> is that common, and the grouping is not necessary without it.</para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>Dependency types for ~D and related operators need to be specified in the canonical case.</para> + </listitem> </itemizedlist> </refsect1> |