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diff --git a/man/dpkg-scanpackages.1 b/man/dpkg-scanpackages.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba67888 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/dpkg-scanpackages.1 @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +.\" dpkg manual page - dpkg-scanpackages(1) +.\" +.\" Copyright © 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net> +.\" Copyright © 2006 Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> +.\" Copyright © 2009 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> +.\" +.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +.\" (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +. +.TH dpkg\-scanpackages 1 "2011-08-14" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities" +.SH NAME +dpkg\-scanpackages \- create Packages index files +. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B dpkg\-scanpackages +.RI [ option "...] " binary-dir +.RI [ override-file +.RI [ path-prefix ]] +.B > +.I Packages +. +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B dpkg\-scanpackages +sorts through a tree of Debian binary packages and creates a Packages +file, used by +.BR apt (8), +.BR dselect (1), +etc, to tell the user what packages are available for installation. These +Packages files are the same as those found on Debian archive sites +and CD-ROMs. You might use +.B dpkg\-scanpackages +yourself if making a directory of local packages to install on a cluster +of machines. +.PP +.B Note: +If you want to access the generated Packages file with +.B apt +you will probably need to compress the file with +.BR bzip2 (1) +(generating a Packages.bz2 file) or +.BR gzip (1) +(generating a Packages.gz file). apt ignores uncompressed Packages +files except on local access (i.e. +.B file:// +sources). +.PP +.I binarydir +is the name of the tree of the binary packages to process (for example, +.BR contrib/binary\-i386 ). +It is best to make this relative to the root of the Debian archive, +because every Filename field in the new Packages file will start with +this string. +.PP +.I overridefile +is the name of a file to read which contains information about how the +package fits into the distribution (it can be a compressed file); see +.BR deb\-override (5). +.PP +.I pathprefix +is an optional string to be prepended to the Filename fields. +.PP +If more than one version of a package is found only the newest one +is included in the output. If they have the same version and only +differ in architecture only the first one found is used. +. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-t ", " \-\-type " \fItype\fP" +Scan for *.\fItype\fP packages, instead of *.deb. +.TP +.BR \-u ", " \-\-udeb +\fBObsolete\fP alias for \fB\-tudeb\fP. +.TP +.BR \-e ", " \-\-extra\-override " \fIfile\fP" +Scan \fIfile\fP to find supplementary overrides (the file can be +compressed). See +.BR deb\-extra\-override (5) +for more information on its format. +.TP +.BR \-a ", " \-\-arch " \fIarch\fP" +Use a pattern consisting of \fI*_all.deb\fP and \fI*_arch.deb\fP instead of +scanning for all debs. +.TP +.BR \-m ", " \-\-multiversion +Include all found packages in the output. +.TP +.BR \-M ", " \-\-medium " \fIid-string\fP" +Add an X\-Medium field containing the value \fIid-string\fP. This field +is required if you want to generate \fBPackages.cd\fP files for use +by the multicd access method of dselect. +.TP +.BR \-h ", " \-\-help +Show the usage message and exit. +.TP +.BR \-\-version +Show the version and exit. +. +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +.B dpkg\-scanpackages +outputs the usual self-explanatory errors. It also warns about packages +that are in the wrong subdirectory, are duplicated, have a Filename +field in their control file, are missing from the override file, or have +maintainer substitutions which do not take effect. +. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR dpkg (1), +.BR dselect (1), +.BR deb\-override (5), +.BR deb\-extra\-override (5), +.BR dpkg\-scansources (1). |