From 848fd2a65fa2aef296d44c9a19b89ac272ca12fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 00:28:47 +0200
Subject: install: Set a local deb as the candidate for that package

This ensures that we can install .deb files that are not the
candidate for a given package.
---
 apt-private/private-install.cc | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'apt-private')

diff --git a/apt-private/private-install.cc b/apt-private/private-install.cc
index 844fcbc7e..3647ca99d 100644
--- a/apt-private/private-install.cc
+++ b/apt-private/private-install.cc
@@ -675,6 +675,18 @@ bool DoInstall(CommandLine &CmdL)
    
    std::map<unsigned short, APT::VersionSet> verset;
 
+   for (const char **I = CmdL.FileList; *I != 0; I++) {
+      // Check for local pkgs like in the loop above.
+      if(!FileExists(*I) || flExtension(*I) != "deb")
+	 continue;
+
+      pkgCache::PkgIterator pkg = Cache->FindPkg(*I);
+
+      // Set any version providing the .deb as the candidate.
+      for (auto Prv = pkg.ProvidesList(); Prv.end() == false; Prv++)
+	 Cache.GetDepCache()->SetCandidateVersion(Prv.OwnerVer());
+   }
+
    if(!DoCacheManipulationFromCommandLine(CmdL, Cache, verset, 0))
       return false;
 
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