add hidden config to set packages as Essential/Important

You can pretty much achieve the same with a local dummy package if you
want to, but libapt has an inbuilt setting for essential: "apt" which
can be overridden with this option as well – it could be helpful in
quick tests and what not so adding this alternative shouldn't really
hurt much.

We aren't going to document them much through as care must be taken in
regards to the binary caches as they aren't invalidated by config
options alone, so the effects of old settings could still be in them,
similar to the other already existing pkgCacheGen option(s).

Closes: 767891
Thanks: Anthony Towns for initial patch

1 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/integration/test-bug-767891-force-essential-important b/test/integration/test-bug-767891-force-essential-important
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+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+TESTDIR="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")")"
+. "$TESTDIR/framework"
+setupenvironment
+configarchitecture 'amd64' 'i386'
+
+insertinstalledpackage 'apt' 'amd64' '1'
+insertinstalledpackage 'foo' 'amd64,i386' '1' 'Multi-Arch: same'
+insertinstalledpackage 'bar' 'amd64' '1' 'Provides: foo'
+
+insertpackage 'unstable' 'foo2' 'amd64,i386' '1' 'Multi-Arch: same'
+
+setupaptarchive
+
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+  apt* bar* foo* foo:i386*
+WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
+This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
+  apt
+0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Purg apt [1]
+Purg bar [1]
+Purg foo [1]
+Purg foo:i386 [1]' apt purge apt foo foo:i386 bar -s
+
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+  apt* bar* foo* foo:i386*
+0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Purg apt [1]
+Purg bar [1]
+Purg foo [1]
+Purg foo:i386 [1]' apt purge apt foo foo:i386 bar -s -o pkgCacheGen::ForceEssential=''
+
+msgmsg 'foo:i386 got the Important flag'
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+  apt* bar* foo* foo:i386*
+WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
+This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
+  foo foo:i386
+0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Purg apt [1]
+Purg bar [1]
+Purg foo [1]
+Purg foo:i386 [1]' apt purge apt foo foo:i386 bar -s -o pkgCacheGen::ForceEssential='foo'
+
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+  apt* bar* foo* foo:i386*
+WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
+This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
+  apt foo foo:i386
+0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Purg apt [1]
+Purg bar [1]
+Purg foo [1]
+Purg foo:i386 [1]' apt purge apt foo foo:i386 bar -s -o pkgCacheGen::ForceEssential::='foo'
+
+msgmsg 'essentials only from native'
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+Calculating upgrade...
+The following NEW packages will be installed:
+  foo2
+0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Inst foo2 (1 unstable [amd64])
+Conf foo2 (1 unstable [amd64])' apt full-upgrade -s -o pkgCacheGen::ForceEssential::='foo2'
+
+msgmsg 'important only effects installed'
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+The following packages will be REMOVED:
+  apt* bar* foo* foo:i386*
+WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
+This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
+  apt foo foo:i386
+0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
+Purg apt [1]
+Purg bar [1]
+Purg foo [1]
+Purg foo:i386 [1]' apt purge apt foo foo:i386 bar -s -o pkgCacheGen::ForceImportant::='foo'
+rm -f rootdir/var/cache/apt/*.bin
+testsuccessequal 'Reading package lists...
+Building dependency tree...
+Calculating upgrade...
+0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.' apt full-upgrade -s -o pkgCacheGen::ForceImportant::='foo2'