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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-05-09 22:23:17 +0200
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-06-11 16:49:03 +0200
commit9244f712396c10b674740cc79fdab61c47173d04 (patch)
treeed9dcc194dba59faae6340e8bea55c5b57b2c867 /doc
parent35cb34d721e11a9e7dfa9ccd29d5bd58da8f7efc (diff)
downloadapt-9244f712396c10b674740cc79fdab61c47173d04.tar.gz
Introduce apt satisfy and apt-get satisfy
Allow to satisfy dependency strings supplied on the command line, optionally prefixed with "Conflicts:" to satisfy them like Conflicts. Build profiles and architecture restriction lists, as used in build dependencies, are supported as well. Compared to build-dep, build-essential is not installed automatically, and installing of recommended packages follows the global default, which defaults to yes. Closes: #275379 See merge request apt-team/apt!63
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-get.8.xml13
-rw-r--r--doc/apt.8.xml9
-rw-r--r--doc/examples/configure-index1
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
index b757c3d30..fca682015 100644
--- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
@@ -205,6 +205,19 @@
option if you want to change that.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>satisfy</option></term>
+ <listitem><para><literal>satisfy</literal> causes apt-get to satisfy the given dependency string.s The
+ dependency strings may have build profiles and architecture restriction list as in build dependencies. They
+ may optionally be prefixed with <literal>"Conflicts: "</literal> to unsatisfy the dependency string. Multiple strings of the same type can be specified.</para>
+
+ <para>Example: <literal>apt-get satisfy "foo" "Conflicts: bar" "baz (&gt;&gt; 1.0) | bar (= 2.0), moo"</literal></para>
+
+ <para>The legacy operator '&lt;/&gt;' is not supported, use '&lt;=/&gt;=' instead.</para>
+
+
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term><option>check</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>check</literal> is a diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache and checks
for broken dependencies.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/doc/apt.8.xml b/doc/apt.8.xml
index e43ad9e9e..0c822b4ef 100644
--- a/doc/apt.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.8.xml
@@ -109,6 +109,15 @@
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>satisfy</option> (&apt-get;)</term>
+ <listitem><para><option>satisfy</option> satisfies dependency strings, as
+ used in Build-Depends. It also handles conflicts, by prefixing an argument
+ with <literal>"Conflicts: "</literal>.
+ </para><para>Example: <literal>apt satisfy "foo, bar (>= 1.0)" "Conflicts: baz, fuzz"</literal>
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+
<varlistentry><term><option>search</option> (&apt-cache;)</term>
<listitem><para><option>search</option> can be used to search for the given
&regex; term(s) in the list of available packages and display
diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index
index 5e317d7e0..25378a809 100644
--- a/doc/examples/configure-index
+++ b/doc/examples/configure-index
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ APT
Arch-Only "<BOOL>";
Indep-Only "<BOOL>";
Build-Dep-Automatic "<BOOL>";
+ Satisfy-Automatic "<BOOL>";
// (non-)confirming options
Force-Yes "<BOOL>"; // allows downgrades, essential removal and eats children