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diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/structures/deps.txt b/doc/server/plugins/structures/deps.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7c5861d06 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/server/plugins/structures/deps.txt @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +.. -*- mode: rst -*- + +.. _server-plugins-generators-deps: + +==== +Deps +==== + +The Deps Plugin allows you to make a series of assertions like "Package +X requires Package Y (and optionally also Package Z etc). Note that only +configuration entries, like Package, Path, etc can be used. Groupings +(like Bundle) are not supported. + +Here are some examples: + +.. note:: + + These particular examples are not extremely useful when using the + Packages plugin as Packages will handle the dependency resolution for + you. However, there are certainly other use cases for the Deps plugin. + +Deps/bcfg2.xml +============== + +.. code-block:: xml + + <Dependencies priority='0'> + <Package name='bcfg2'> + <Package name='python-lxml'/> + <Package name='isprelink'/> + </Package> + </Dependencies> + +This basically causes any configuration specification that includes +Package bcfg2 to include python-lxml and isprelink, in a second base +clause. + +Deps/bcfg2-server.xml +===================== + +.. code-block:: xml + + <Dependencies priority='0'> + <Package name='bcfg2-server'> + <Package name='python-cheetah'/> + <Package name='gamin-python'/> + <Package name='sqlite'/> + <Package name='python-sqlite'/> + <Package name='Django'/> + <Package name='mod_python'/> + <Package name='graphviz'/> + <Package name='xorg-x11-font-utils'/> + <Package name='chkfontpath'/> + <Package name='ttmkfdir'/> + <Package name='xorg-x11-xfs'/> + <Package name='urw-fonts'/> + </Package> + </Dependencies> + +This states that the bcfg2-server package (it's a separate package on +some distros) depends on a long list of other packages. |