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

1 files changed, 13 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>