From 2839b383acd5ce22af427e522c45322ce3a7170c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Kolpackov Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:07:58 +0200 Subject: Update manual --- bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx | 12 +- doc/manual.cli | 279 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) diff --git a/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx b/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx index 8783b51..9fb93c7 100644 --- a/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx +++ b/bpkg/system-package-manager-debian.hxx @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ namespace bpkg // The system package manager implementation for Debian and alike (Ubuntu, // etc) using the APT frontend. // + // NOTE: the below description is also reproduced in the bpkg manual. + // // For background, a library in Debian is normally split up into several // packages: the shared library package (e.g., libfoo1 where 1 is the ABI // version), the development files package (e.g., libfoo-dev), the @@ -73,11 +75,11 @@ namespace bpkg // group (see parse_name_value() for details). // // The Debian package version has the [:][-] form - // (see deb-version(5) for details). If no explicit mapping to bpkg version - // is specified with the debian-to-downstream-version manifest values (or - // alike), then we fallback to using the part as bpkg version. If - // explicit mapping is specified, then we match it against the - // [:] parts ignoring . + // (see deb-version(5) for details). If no explicit mapping to the bpkg + // version is specified with the debian-to-downstream-version (or alike) + // manifest values or none match, then we fallback to using the + // part as the bpkg version. If explicit mapping is specified, then we match + // it against the [:] parts ignoring . // struct system_package_status_debian: system_package_status { diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli index 10b3047..678933f 100644 --- a/doc/manual.cli +++ b/doc/manual.cli @@ -2390,80 +2390,73 @@ automatically added, for example, when the \l{#manifest-package-list-pkg package list manifest} is created. -\h2#manifest-package-distribution|\c{*-name}| +\h2#manifest-package-distribution|\c{*-{name, version, to-downstream-version\}}| \ -[*-name]: [...] -[*-version]: -[*-to-downstream-version]: +[-name]: [...] +[-version]: +[-to-downstream-version]: - = /// + = [_] + = /// \ -The binary distribution packages where the substring matched by \c{*} in -\c{*-name} denotes the distribution name which has the -\c{[\b{_}]} form. For example: - -\ -debian -debian_10 -fedora_32 -ubuntu_16.04 -freebsd_12.1 -windows_10 -macos_10 -macos_10.15 -macos_12 -\ - -If the \c{*-name} values are specified, then the packages required for these -binary distributions can be created using the \l{bpkg-pkg-bindist(1)} -command. The \c{*-name} values contain whitespace separated lists of the -distribution package names. Normally such a list contains a single primary -package name, but can additionally contain the related package names which -cannot automatically be deduced from the primary package name. For example: - -\ -debian_10-name: libssl1.1 libssl-dev -fedora_32-name: openssl-libs -\ - -If the distribution package version differs from the upstream package version -(the \c{upstream-version} value, if present, and the \c{version} value -otherwise), then the matching \c{*-version} value needs to be specified. For +The binary distribution package name and version mapping. The \c{-name} value +specifies the distribution package(s) this \c{bpkg} package maps to. If +unspecified, then appropriate name(s) are automatically derived from the +\c{bpkg} package name (\l{#manifest-package-name \c{name}}). Similarly, the +\c{-version} value specifies the distribution package version. If unspecified, +then the \c{upstream-version} value is used if specified and the \c{bpkg} +version otherwise (\l{#manifest-package-version \c{version}}). While the +\c{-to-downstream-version} values specify the reverse mapping, that is, from +the distribution version to the \c{bpkg} version. If unspecified or none +match, then the appropriate part of the distribution version is used. For example: \ +name: libssl +version 1.1.1+18 debian-name: libssl1.1 libssl-dev debian-version: 1.1.1n +debian-to-downstream-version: /1\.1\.1[a-z]/1.1.1/ +debian-to-downstream-version: /([3-9])\.([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1.\2.\3/ \ -To specify the distribution package version to be the same as the \cb{bpkg} -package version, the special \c{$} value can be used. For example: +If \c{upstream-version} is specified but the the distribution package version +should be the same as the \c{bpkg} package version, then the special \c{$} +\c{-version} value can be used. For example: \ debian-version: $ \ -When configuring a package as a system dependency the \l{bpkg-pkg-build(1)} -command needs to map the binary distribution package versions back to the -\cb{bpkg} package versions, so it can verify the version constraints imposed -by the dependent packages on this dependency package. Unless such a mapping is -maintained externally, it should be specified at the \cb{bpkg} package level -by using the \c{*-to-downstream-version} values. For example: +The \c{} name prefix consists of the distribution name followed +by the optional distribution version. If the version is omitted, then the +value applies to all versions. Some examples of distribution names and +versions: \ -debian-name: libssl1.1 libssl-dev -debian-version: 1.1.1n -debian-to-downstream-version: /([^.])\.([^.])\.([^.])n/\1.\2.\3+14/ -debian-to-downstream-version: /([^.])\.([^.])\.([^.])o/\1.\2.\3+15/ -debian-to-downstream-version: /([^.])\.([^.])\.([^.])p/\1.\2.\3+16/ +debian +debian_10 +ubuntu_16.04 +fedora_32 +rhel_8.5 +freebsd_12.1 +windows_10 +macos_10 +macos_10.15 +macos_12 \ -If \cb{bpkg} finds the matching regular expression pattern, then it uses the -corresponding replacement to produce the \cb{bpkg} package version. Otherwise, -it excludes this binary distribution package version from the consideration. +Note also that some distributions are like others (for example, \c{ubuntu} is +like \c{debian}) and the corresponding \"base\" distribution values are +considered if no \"derived\" values are specified. +The exact format of the \c{-name} value and the distribution version part that +is matched against the \c{-to-downstream-version} pattern are +distribution-specific. For details, see +\l{#bindist-mapping-debian Debian Package Mapping} and +\l{#bindist-mapping-fedora Fedora Package Mapping}. \h#manifest-package-list-pkg|Package List Manifest for \cb{pkg} Repositories| @@ -2918,6 +2911,188 @@ signature: The signature of the \c{packages.manifest} file. It should be calculated by encrypting the above \c{sha256sum} value with the repository certificate's private key and then \c{base64}-encoding the result. + + +\h1#bindist-mapping|Binary Distribution Package Mapping| + + +\h#bindist-mapping-debian|Debian Package Mapping| + +This section describes the distribution package mapping for Debian and +alike (Ubuntu, etc). + +A library in Debian is normally split up into several packages: the shared +library package (e.g., \c{libfoo1} where \c{1} is the ABI version), the +development files package (e.g., \c{libfoo-dev}), the documentation files +package (e.g., \c{libfoo-doc}), the debug symbols package (e.g., +\c{libfoo1-dbg}), and the architecture-independent files (e.g., +\c{libfoo1-common}). All the packages except \c{-dev} are optional and there +is quite a bit of variability. Here are a few examples: + +\ +libz3-4 libz3-dev + +libssl1.1 libssl-dev libssl-doc +libssl3 libssl-dev libssl-doc + +libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev libcurl4-doc +libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-gnutls-dev libcurl4-doc +\ + +For executable packages there is normally no \c{-dev} packages but \c{-dbg}, +\c{-doc}, and \c{-common} are plausible. + +Based on that, our approach when trying to automatically map a \c{bpkg} +library package name to Debian package names is to go for the \c{-dev} package +first and figure out the shared library package from that based on the fact +that the \c{-dev} package should have the \c{==} dependency on the shared +library package with the same version and its name should normally start with +the \c{-dev} package's stem. + +The format of the \c{debian-name} (or alike) manifest value is a +comma-separated list of one or more package groups: + +\ + [, ...] +\ + +Where each \c{} is the space-separated list of one or more +package names: + +\ + [ ...] +\ + +All the packages in the group should be \"package components\" (for the lack +of a better term) of the same \"logical package\", such as \c{-dev}, \c{-doc}, +\c{-common} packages. They normally have the same version. + +The first group is called the main group and the first package in the +group is called the main package. Note that all the groups are consumed +(installed) but only the main group is produced (packaged). + +We allow/recommend specifying the \c{-dev} package instead of the main package +for libraries (the \c{bpkg} package name starts with \c{lib}), seeing that we +are capable of detecting the main package automatically (see above). If the +library name happens to end with \c{-dev} (which poses an ambiguity), then the +\c{-dev} package should be specified explicitly as the second package to +disambiguate this situation. + +The Debian package version has the \c{[:][-]} form +(see \cb{deb-version(5)} for details). If no explicit mapping to the \c{bpkg} +version is specified with the \c{debian-to-downstream-version} (or alike) +manifest values or none match, then we fallback to using the \c{} +part as the \c{bpkg} version. If explicit mapping is specified, then we match +it against the \c{[:]} parts ignoring \c{}. + + +\h#bindist-mapping-fedora|Fedora Package Mapping| + +This section describes the distribution package mapping for Fedora and alike +(Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos, etc). + +A library in Fedora is normally split up into several packages: the shared +library package (e.g., \c{libfoo}), the development files package (e.g., +\c{libfoo-devel}), the static library package (e.g., \c{libfoo-static}; may +also be placed into the \c{-devel} package), the documentation files package +(e.g., \c{libfoo-doc}), the debug symbols and source files packages (e.g., +\c{libfoo-debuginfo} and \c{libfoo-debugsource}), and the common or +architecture-independent files (e.g., \c{libfoo-common}). All the packages +except \c{-devel} are optional and there is quite a bit of variability. In +particular, the \c{lib} prefix in \c{libfoo} is not a requirement (unlike in +Debian) and is normally present only if upstream name has it (see some +examples below). + +For application packages there is normally no \c{-devel} packages but +\c{-debug*}, \c{-doc}, and \c{-common} are plausible. + +For mixed packages which include both applications and libraries, the shared +library package normally has the \c{-libs} suffix (e.g., \c{foo-libs}). + +A package name may also include an upstream version based suffix if +multiple versions of the package can be installed simultaneously (e.g., +\c{libfoo1.1} \c{libfoo1.1-devel}, \c{libfoo2} \c{libfoo2-devel}). + +Terminology-wise, the term \"base package\" (sometime also \"main package\") +normally refers to either the application or shared library package (as +decided by the package maintainer in the spec file) with the suffixed packages +(\c{-devel}, \c{-doc}, etc) called \"subpackages\". + +Here are a few examples: + +\ +libpq libpq-devel + +zlib zlib-devel zlib-static + +xerces-c xerces-c-devel xerces-c-doc + +libsigc++20 libsigc++20-devel libsigc++20-doc +libsigc++30 libsigc++30-devel libsigc++30-doc + +icu libicu libicu-devel libicu-doc + +openssl openssl-devel openssl-libs + +curl libcurl libcurl-devel + +sqlite sqlite-libs sqlite-devel sqlite-doc + +community-mysql community-mysql-libs community-mysql-devel +community-mysql-common community-mysql-server +\ + +Based on that, our approach when trying to automatically map a \c{bpkg} +library package name to Fedora package names is to go for the \c{-devel} +package first and figure out the shared library package from that based on the +fact that the \c{-devel} package should have the \c{==} dependency on the +shared library package with the same version and its name should normally +start with the \c{-devel} package's stem and potentially end with the +\c{-libs} suffix. If failed to find the \c{-devel} package, we re-try but now +using the \c{bpkg} project name instead of the package name (see, for example, +\c{openssl}, \c{sqlite}). + +The format of the \c{fedora-name} (or alike) manifest value value is a +comma-separated list of one or more package groups: + +\ + [, ...] +\ + +Where each \c{} is the space-separated list of one or more +package names: + +\ + [ ...] +\ + +All the packages in the group should belong to the same \"logical package\", +such as \c{-devel}, \c{-doc}, \c{-common} packages. They normally have the +same version. + +The first group is called the main group and the first package in the +group is called the main package. Note that all the groups are consumed +(installed) but only the main group is produced (packaged). + +(Note that above we use the term \"logical package\" instead of \"base +package\" since the main package may not be the base package, for example +being the \c{-libs} subpackage.) + +We allow/recommend specifying the \c{-devel} package instead of the main +package for libraries (the \c{bpkg} package name starts with \c{lib}), seeing +that we are capable of detecting the main package automatically (see +above). If the library name happens to end with \c{-devel} (which poses an +ambiguity), then the \c{-devel} package should be specified explicitly as the +second package to disambiguate this situation. + +The Fedora package version has the \c{[:]-} form (see +Fedora Package Versioning Guidelines for details). If no explicit mapping +to the \c{bpkg} version is specified with the \c{fedora-to-downstream-version} +(or alike) manifest values or none match, then we fallback to using the +\c{} part as the \c{bpkg} version. If explicit mapping is specified, +then we match it against the \c{[:]} parts ignoring +\c{}. + " //@@ TODO items (grep). -- cgit v1.1