SYNOPSIS
edos-pscheck [option] ... pkg-summary-file
DESCRIPTION
edos-pscheck reads package descriptions from a file in the pkg_summary format of NetBSD. We say that a package is identified by the pair consisting of the package name and of the package version.
A package (called goal) is called installable with respect to a set of
packages if there exists a subset of the packages that
- contains at most one version for each package name
- contains the goal package (in any version, or a specific version)
- all packages of the subset have their dependencies and conflicts satisfied
in this subset.
Edos-psmcheck checks whether every package in the set is installable with respect to the input set of packages. Specific versions can be specified by following the package name with the sign '=' and the version of the package (for instance, 'xemacs21=21.4.17-1'). If no package name is given as argument then all packages of the input set are checked for satisfiability.
The constraint solving algorithm is complete, that is it finds a solution whenever there exists one, even for multiple disjunctive dependencies and deep package conflicts. This problem is computationally infeasible in theory (that is, NP-complete), but can in practice be solved very efficiently.
OPTIONS
- -explain
- Explain the results
- -rules
- Print generated rules
- -failures
- Only show failures
- -successes
- Only show successes
- -base file
- Specifiy an additional file providing packages that are not checked but used for resolving dependencies
- -quiet
- Supress warnings and progress/timing messages
- -xml
- Output results in XML format
- -help, --help
-
Display this list of options
EXAMPLE
Check which packages in a particular distribution are not installable and why:
edos-pscheck -failures -explain pkg_summary
where pkg_summary is the file pertaining to that distribution.
AUTHOR
Edos-pscheck has been written by Jerome Vouillon and Jaap Boender for the EDOS and Mancoosi projects. This man-page has been compiled by Ralf Treinen.