apt_package should support local installation of deb packages providing a less horrible interface than apt itself

[lamont-granquist]

see #5685

the typical way that ubuntu/debian admins install a local package on the command line and get depsolving is to either:

• apt-get install -f ./package.deb and have that fail
• apt-get -yf install when the former fails

or to:

• copy the deb to /var/cache/apt/archives/
• apt-get install package

see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159094/how-to-install-a-deb-file-by-dpkg-i-or-by-apt

we should fix it so that users can just:

apt_packge ./package.deb

and have it work the same way that yum supports localinstall of rpms transparently.

[coderanger]

I've always done this through https://launchpad.net/gdebi not apt.

[lamont-granquist]

that would get messy to have apt_package depend on that though.

[jugatsu]

How about dpkg -i for local installs? Example from ansible apt module below
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/devel/packaging/os/apt.py#L588

[coderanger]

@jugatsu That doesn't install deps and is already available via dpkg_package.

[renchap]

Starting with Debian Stretch apt install ./package.deb now works as expected and install the package dependencies.
The apt_package resource does not allow source to be defined, so you can not use this feature.

The provider should be changed so you can do something like:

apt_package "mypackage" do
  action :install
  source "/var/cache/mypackage.deb"
end

It should work out of the box (with a recent apt) once the check in the current provider is removed.