locks(5) System Tools locks(5)NAMElocks - libzypp locking file
DESCRIPTION
The file /etc/zypp/locks is read by libzypp at startup if zypp.conf
allows it. The entries are used for initial locking of packages. Lock‐
ing a package means not allowing to install or uninstall it. Valid
entries are
attribute: value
Where attributes and their values are described below.
Locks are separated by empty lines.
ATTRIBUTES
All attributes are lower-case.
repo specifies repository restriction. Only alias is accepted.
By default all repositories match.
type resolvable type restriction
The values can be package, patch, pattern, product and srcpack‐
age.
By default all types match.
case_sensitive
if strings are matched case sensitive. The values are true,
false, on, off.
The default is case insensitive.
install_status
status of object. Possible states are installed, not-installed
and all. If more install statuses are specified then the last
one is used.
The values are installed for all packages which are installed,
non-installed for packages which can be installed or reinstalled
and all for both.
The default is all.
match_type
type of string matching in values. Does not affect type and repo
which must be specified exactly.
The values are exact, substring, regex for regular expressions,
glob for matching as on the command line, and word.
The default is substring.
query_string
String to be matched in multiple attributes. Should be
restricted by another attribute with empty value ( it is recom‐
mended, because without restriction expect some performance
problems ).
version
Restrict the lock only to some versions. It contains two parts:
an optional operator and the version.
The operator is ==,!=,<,>,<=,>=. If operator is not specified
then == is used.
The version has the format [epoch:]version[-release].
Example: version: < 0:0.11.4-2
solvable_name
name of object (e.g. zypper)
solvable_summary
summary of object
solvable_arch
architecture of object (e.g. x86_64, i586)
solvable_description
description of object
solvable_eula
license text of objects which request accepting license by user
solvable_license
license of package (only for package) (e.g. GPL2)
solvable_keywords
keywords which specify package (only for package)
solvable_authors
authors of package (only for package)
solvable_group
package group (only for package) (e.g. Development/Tools/Version
Control )
update_reference_type
reference for update (e.g. bugzilla,cve) (only for patches)
EXAMPLES
Exact Package
This is the way YaST UI does it. Lock k3b (e.g. you don't want
to update it).
-----locks-----
type: package
solvable_name: k3b
match_type: exact
case_sensitive: on
Package Wildcard
This is the way "zypper addlock cross-*-gcc-icecream-backend"
does it.
-----locks-----
type: package
solvable_name: cross-*-gcc-icecream-backend
match_type: glob
case_sensitive: on
Versioned Lock
Do not install new GCC. This format is used when converting from
the openSUSE-10.3 lock format.
-----locks-----
solvable_name: gcc
match_type: glob
version: > 4.2
Anything named KDE
Locks everything which contains kde in the name.
-----locks-----
solvable_name: kde
Anything mentioning KDE
Locks everything which contains kde in the name, summary, or
description.
-----locks-----
query_string: kde
solvable_name:
solvable_summary:
solvable_description:
HOMEPAGE
This manual page only covers the most important attributes. The com‐
plete list is available at http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Locksfile
AUTHORS
Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@suse.cz>
Manual page contributions by Martin Vidner <mvidner@suse.cz>.
SEE ALSOzypper(8)libzypp 4.25.0 locks(5)