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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libalpm/alpm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libalpm/alpm.h | 30 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h index fefb9c57..42a4bbac 100644 --- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h +++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h @@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ const char *alpm_db_get_name(const pmdb_t *db); */ const char *alpm_db_get_url(const pmdb_t *db); -/** Set the serverlist of a database. +/** Add a new server for a database. + * An empty string or NULL can be passed to empty the current server list. * @param db database pointer * @param url url of the server * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly) @@ -314,10 +315,10 @@ pmgrp_t *alpm_db_readgrp(pmdb_t *db, const char *name); */ alpm_list_t *alpm_db_get_grpcache(pmdb_t *db); -/** Searches a database. +/** Searches a database with regular expressions. * @param db pointer to the package database to search in - * @param needles the list of strings to search for - * @return the list of packages on success, NULL on error + * @param needles a list of regular expressions to search for + * @return the list of packages matching all regular expressions on success, NULL on error */ alpm_list_t *alpm_db_search(pmdb_t *db, const alpm_list_t* needles); @@ -339,7 +340,8 @@ int alpm_db_set_pkgreason(pmdb_t *db, const char *name, pmpkgreason_t reason); /** Create a package from a file. * If full is false, the archive is read only until all necessary * metadata is found. If it is true, the entire archive is read, which - * serves as a verfication of integrity and the filelist can be created. + * serves as a verification of integrity and the filelist can be created. + * The allocated structure should be freed using alpm_pkg_free(). * @param filename location of the package tarball * @param full whether to stop the load after metadata is read or continue * through the full archive @@ -813,9 +815,27 @@ int alpm_trans_release(void); /** @name Common Transactions */ /** @{ */ + +/** Search for packages to upgrade and add them to the transaction. + * @param enable_downgrade allow downgrading of packages if the remote version is lower + * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly) + */ int alpm_sync_sysupgrade(int enable_downgrade); + +/** Add a package to the transaction. + * If the package was loaded by alpm_pkg_load(), it will be freed upon + * alpm_trans_release() invocation. + * @param pkg the package to add + * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly) + */ int alpm_add_pkg(pmpkg_t *pkg); + +/** Add a package removal action to the transaction. + * @param pkg the package to uninstall + * @return 0 on success, -1 on error (pm_errno is set accordingly) + */ int alpm_remove_pkg(pmpkg_t *pkg); + /** @} */ /** @addtogroup alpm_api_depends Dependency Functions |