Ubuntu Manpage: apt-cudf - CUDF solver integration for APT

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NAME

       apt-cudf - CUDF solver integration for APT

SYNOPSIS

       solvername

DESCRIPTION

       apt-cudf translates back and forth among a CUDF-based dependency solver and the protocol used by APT to
       talk with external dependency solvers. apt-cudf therefore allows one to use any CUDF solver as an
       external solver for APT.

       apt-cudf relies on its "argv[0]" name to find the CUDF solver to invoke.  In common setups, you should
       have a CUDF solver specification file under /usr/share/cudf/solvers/ for each installed CUDF solver. To
       use one such solver with APT, you should create a symbolic link pointing to /usr/bin/apt-cudf under
       /usr/lib/apt/solvers/ and call it with the name of the CUDF solver you want to use.

OPTIONS

-v
--verbose
Print debugging information during operation. Can be repeated.

-h
--help
Show usage information and exit.

--version
Show program's version and exit.

--dump
Dump the cudf universe and solution

--noop
Dump the cudf universe and solution and exit. This is useful to generate a cudf universe from a edsp
file

--conf
Use a configuration file. Default in /etc/apt-cudf.conf

-s <solver>
--solver <solver>
Specify the external solver to use.

-c <criteria>
--criteria <criteria>
Specify the optimization criteria in extended MISC 2012 syntax. This value will be converted into the
optimization criteria language understood by the respective solver.

As an extension to the MISC 2012 syntax, a variation of the count() measurement is supported by apt-
cudf. The extension allows to minimize or maximize the number of packages in a set that have an EDSP
field matching a regular expression. Two formats exist. The first searches for a plain string within
the EDSP field value:

count(selector,field:=/plain/)

While the second one understands the regular expression syntax of the OCaml Re.Pcre module:

count(selector,field:~/regex/)

The regex or plain string are delimitered by any character (the slash was chosen in both above
examples) but that character must not be part of the regex or plain string itself (there is no
escaping mechanism).

This option cannot be used together with the --criteria-plain option.

--criteria-plain <criteria>
This optimization criteria is passed directly to the solver without any prior parsing.

This option cannot be used together with the --criteria option.

-e
--explain
Print a human-readable summary of the solution.

--native-arch
Speficy the native architecture to be used in the edsp -> cudf translation. By default apt-cudf uses
apt-config to deduce the native architecture. This option is useful if the edsp was generated on a
machine with a different architecture.

--foreign-archs
A comma-separated list of foreign architectures to be used in the edsp -> cudf translation

EXAMPLES

       Find a solution for installing the package ghc which minimizes the packages from experimental:

               apt-get --simulate install --solver dump -o APT::Solver::Strict-Pinning=false ghc
               apt-cudf -v --solver=aspcud -c "-count(solution,APT-Release:=/a=experimental/),-removed,-changed,-new" /tmp/dump.edsp

       Usually apt-cudf is not called directly by the user but indirectly by apt-get.  So the above would
       become:

               apt-get --simulate install --solver aspcud -o APT::Solver::Strict-Pinning=false -o APT::Solver::aspcud::Preferences="-count(solution,APT-Release:=/a=experimental/),-removed,-changed,-new" ghc/experimental

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